I logined in there and I used my oinkcode I tried to download just one rule I mean *.rules It worked I can download one by one but not the group of them maybe their files are corrupted see here that I downloaded: wget http://cvs.snort.org/viewcvs.cgi/snort/rules/dos.rules --12:09:32-- http://cvs.snort.org/viewcvs.cgi/snort/rules/dos.rules => `dos.rules' Resolving cvs.snort.org... 64.214.53.20 Connecting to cvs.snort.org|64.214.53.20|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] [ <=> ] 88,858 19.99K/s 12:09:40 (19.98 KB/s) - `dos.rules' saved [88858]