I did a little bit of sleuthing and couldn't find anything either. People have talked about it before though. http://sourceforge.net/p/fail2ban/mailman/message/18344780/
I will look into how hard this is to implement, sounds like a fun little project. thanks On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 09:49:30PM +0200, Yves wrote: > On 17/10/2014 19:18, Steve Rowe wrote: > > Hi Yves, > > > > I believe this is as simple as using the > > findtime = 3600 > > in the jail.conf > > > > the 3600 is the amount of seconds of accumulative attempts. so as long > > as you do not have (in my example of 3600) more than 3 (if your using > > maxretry = 3) attempts incorrect in the 5 minutes(3600 seconds) then you > > will not get banned. > > > > I hope this explains it a little easier. > > > > Steve > > Thank you Steve. This is not quite what I wanted, but it is close enough. > I guess a good part of my questions stem from the fact that I did not > find the syntax of the conf files (what directives are available, and > their syntax). The keywords and syntax seem to be different from what > fail2ban-client is using. > Anyway, findtime will be fine :-) > > Yves. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. > Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. > Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. > Take corrective actions from your mobile device. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho > _______________________________________________ > Fail2ban-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Fail2ban-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users
