Hello René,
the reason I'm trying to solve this in a hacky way is because when I try
your solution, if I restart the server or fail2ban service, all those IPs
get banned again.
How can I definitively unban them?
2018-06-22 17:53 GMT-03:00 René Berber <rber...@cactus-soft.org>:
> On 6/22/2018 3:11 PM, Lucas Cotta wrote:
>
> > Somebody, any idea?
>
> Look into the fail2ban log (/var/log/fail2ban.log), after the "Start
> Fail2ban v0.10.1" or similar, look for the "Creating new jail", and
> about 4 lines below "Added logfile:"...
>
> When you delete the persistent database f2b scans the log, that's the
> only other place were it can get the info to ban. Deleting the log is
> not a correct procedure (neither is deleting the database), those logs
> are usually managed by the syslog daemon.
>
> Perhaps you are trying to do things in some "fast way", but the correct
> way for unbanning an IP is done with:
>
> fail2ban-client set <JAIL> unbanip <IP>
>
> Even if you have many addressed to unban (you said 90), its easy with
> shell functionality, just put them in a list (one per line), and loop
> over it, for instance in bash:
>
> echo THE_LIST.txt | while read ip; do
> fail2ban-client set dovecot unbanip $ip
> done
>
> The list can be made with:
>
> grep "Ban " /var/log/fail2ban.log | cut -sd ' ' -f 16 >
> THE_LIST.txt
> (all is one line)
>
> --
> René Berber
>
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