title: Issue on Snort rules to track IRC servers activities
body: <p>alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET any (msg:"COMMUNITY BOT IRC Traffic Detected By Nick Change"; flow: to_server,established; content:"NICK "; nocase; offset: 0; depth: 5; flowbits:set,community_is_proto_irc; flowbits: noalert; classtype:misc-activity; sid:100000240; rev:3;)</p>
  
  <p>alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"COMMUNITY BOT Internal IRC server detected"; flow: to_server,established; flowbits:isset,community_is_proto_irc; classtype: policy-violation; sid:100000241; rev:2;)</p>
  
  <p>alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET any (msg:"CHAT IRC message from internal bot"; flow: established; flowbits:isset,community_is_proto_irc; content:"PRIVMSG "; nocase; classtype:policy-violation; sid:1463;)</p>
  
  <p>The above rules have been written by <a href="http://blog.vorant.com/2006/03/detecting-common-botnets-with-snort.html" rel="nofollow">David Bianco</a> to track IRC bot/server activity on any IRC port. However, the above rules works fine but I have a problem with them. My problem is happening when multiple IRC servers (some of them work on 7000 and the other work on 6667) run on the network some of them will  achieve the conditions of the rules and Snort will generate the alerts and some of them (or even one of them) will not achieve these condition and as a result Snort wont generate any alert related to the defined set. I think there's a kind of inconsistency. Any suggestions on that issue? I am working on Snort 2.8.</p>