fail2ban

Fail2ban – ban, unban and display banned IP addresses
To show the list of banned IPs with Fail2ban, you have to know the name of the jail you want to show the blocked IPs’. To display the active jails type: # fail2ban-client status Now select the required jail to show the banned IPs # fail2ban-client status <JAIL-NAME> For example to show banned IPs...
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Fail2ban Disable Stop and Start Emails
Are you fed up with those annoying e-mails that are sent every time the ‘fail2ban’ service is stopped, started or restarted? You have spent many hours surfing the web looking for a fix that really works, without the need to modify any of the ‘fail2ban’ default configuration files and have still not found one?...
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Automatically Block Bad Bots
Running Linux/UNIX servers for several sites I was fed up with seeing the numerous 403 and 404 errors being reported daily in Apache’s access log files which had been growing in number over the past several years. So, I decided to make a stance and to start sticking two fingers up to constant Brute...
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