TIPS Persistent fail2ban banning

[AndyInNYC]

I've been using my PBX for years without problems. It lives in the basement and my modem forwards the correct ports. I'm running fail2ban and all has been fine.

fail2ban, however, doesn't persist bans between restarts and reboots. This article Persistent Fail2ban stats the 3 lines which need to be added for banned IPs to be written to disk and loaded upon restart.

Unfortunately, when I copy the 3 changes, fail2ban fails to restart. I'm using copy and paste, so I think it may be that 'our version' is different than stock.

Ward/All, is there something simple I'm missing to get permanent, persistent bans working?

Thanks.

Andrew

 

[dicko]

Fail2ban less than 0.9 does not support persistant banning. Versions above >=0.9 dont need any external help over a restart

 

[KNERD]

All you should need to do is enter something like

fail2ban-client -vvv set asterisk-iptables banip 212.129.0.0/16

If should be permanent.

 

[dicko]

That will work fone on 0.9+,You would need to check that on 0.8 as I think you would need to do that on every fail2ban restart, that version has no permenant memory, +0.9 adds sqlite3 to the mix, try it.

 

[KNERD]

but we do not know which version he is running at this point. I am sure they will respond soon enough.