I should add that the place I added the ignoreip address to was 
/etc/fail2ban/jail.conf



> On 16 Oct 2015, at 10:46 AM, Noel da Costa <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> fail2ban is blocking one of my servers even though I've added it to the 
> ignoreip list and restarted the fail2ban service.
> 
> I’m not sure if this is expected behaviour but fail2ban only logs the first 
> blockage. When I try to connect again from that server nothing gets logged. 
> The server trying to connect gets the error:
> 
>  [0] => ssh: connect to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22: Connection refused
>  [1] => fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> If I reboot the server it works for a while. It also seems to be a bit flaky. 
> It reports that I’m logging in with the incorrect password even though the 
> password should actually not be required because I’m logging in using ssh 
> keys. 
> 
> All of this is happening via scripts that are executed from my web server. It 
> seems to work fine on some vhosts but not on others.
> 
> Very confused.
> 
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