It seems that you are experiencing "missing chain" problem: your fail2ban rules get erased by your firewall on its restart
> And: > /etc/init.d/fail2ban status > Status of fail2ban: fail2ban is running. > But: > iptables -L of course shows the absence of the fail2ban lines. but is there fail2ban or not? status says on the status of the process, not the state of iptables rules... please go through http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331695 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329163 to confirm that it is the same issue of fail2ban rules being erased by external means (firewall) (so I can merge your bug with them or just close it) Also please give a try alpha version available from http://itanix.rutgers.edu/rumba/dists/unstable/perspect/binary-all/net/ which will be uploaded to unstable soon -- Yarik .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555]
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