Thanks for that, Michael. I had my findtime set too low apparently. The
issue I'm having now is that new violators aren't banned.

Thanks,

Chris Short
http://chrisshort.net
Public PGP Key: http://cshort.co/pub_key
Keybase: http://cshort.co/keybaseio


On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Michael H <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Ignore that previous reply, I've been working with RHEL7 a lot recently :)
>
> this is my C6 jail config for SSH - I hope it helps.
>
> [ssh-iptables]
> enabled = true
> filter = sshd
> action = iptables[name=SSH, port=ssh, protocol=tcp]
> #remove this line below if you do not wish to receive email upon ban.
>         sendmail-whois[name=SSH, dest=root, sender=fail2ban@HOSTNAME]
> logpath = /var/log/secure
> maxretry = 10
> findtime = 86400
>
> Michael
>
> On 21/08/15 16:03, Michael H wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > which jail is not working? the standard sshd?
> >
> > I ran into the same kind of issue last year, I found that the iptables
> > action wasn't working, after switching to
> >
> > action = firewallcmd-ipset[name=SSH, port=22, protocol=tcp]
> >
> > everything began to work...
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On 21/08/15 15:23, Chris Short wrote:
> >> I have been having significant issues getting fail2ban to actually ban
> >> hosts on RHEL 6 using the latest package from EPEL. The logs indicate
> >> fail2ban is finding failures worthy of blocking but only seems to do so
> >> at service start. I've tried auto and polling backends.
> >>
> >> Here is the current jail.local I'm working with:
> >> http://pastebin.com/qZv4JN9J
> >>
> >> Any thoughts or guidance would be much appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Chris Short
> >> http://chrisshort.net
> >> Public PGP Key: http://cshort.co/pub_key
> >> Keybase: http://cshort.co/keybaseio
> >>
> >>
> >>
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