On 21 March 2017 at 15:41, Bryan K. Walton <bwal...@leepfrog.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at this closed bug report (from December of 2015):
>
> https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/1284
>
> Is it still correct to say that fail2ban will not block an IP if the SSH
> logs record a string like:
>
> "Did not receive identification string from"
>
> But an authentication attempt did not occur? (No username/password was
> provided)
>
> In other words, just wanting to verify that the information in the bug
> report is still factually correct.
>
I don't think anything has changed - because it was not technically a bug.
If you want to ban an IP on these types of attempts, just follow Sebres'
suggestion in his answer to the bug report.
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