TIPS fail2ban on 15-16

[kmcdaniel]

I had an extension that I deleted and it continued to make registration attempts and banned my ip address. Upon running cat /var/log/fail2ban.log it is showed as already banned. How do I remove the banned IP address?

 

[wardmundy]

fail2ban-client set FAIL2BAN-MODULE-THAT-BANNED-IP unbanip 12.34.56.78

 

[kmcdaniel]

fail2ban-client set FAIL2BAN-MODULE-THAT-BANNED-IP unbanip 12.34.56.78

Thank you!

 

[kmcdaniel]

Once you unban the IP. What is the best way to whitelist the IP so it doesn't get banned again? I have tuned off fail2ban for the time being but found that after some lengthy time it restarted. I need to do this as I cant prevent the registration attempts until I get back in town. I should mention that the ipaddress fqdn has been added via /root/add-fqdn but still the IP is getting banned.

 

[tbrummell]

in jail.conf or fail2ban.conf (pretty sure it's jail) add your IP or subnet to the IGNOREIP line.

 

[kenn10]

in jail.conf or fail2ban.conf (pretty sure it's jail) add your IP or subnet to the IGNOREIP line.

it's in /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf about 25-30 lines down from the top. Add an ignoreip = line with the desired IP address, save and then systemctl restart fail2ban.

 

[tbrummell]

Yeah, what @kenn10 said. My response makes him work for it a little bit.