Fail2ban:Community Portal

User Suggestions

I also love Fail2ban (great work guys), maybe I'm missing something but is there a way to unban an IP using fail2ban-client? If not could you add this feature?

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Thank you :) You're right :/ You can't unban an IP address using fail2ban-client. This will be added in the next development branch (0.9). Be patient ;) --Lostcontrol 23:23, 21 March 2007 (CET)

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Fail2ban is one of the best projects I've encountered - I love it! One suggestion: in 0.7 , the iptables.conf action uses pre-ban command"

iptables -L....

Is there a reason for this? Maybe ip spoofing? At any rate, this can cause fail2ban to take forever in implementing its actions if the iptables chains are big, because it causes DNS lookups for each entry. I suggest adding the "n" flag to the command, to speed things up, like this:

iptables -nL....

See:

netfilter FAQ: iptables -L takes a very long time to display the rules

and

Docunext: fail2ban iptable.conf action

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Thank you. Added in the repository. --Lostcontrol 13:21, 14 December 2006 (PST)

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