On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 17:18, <i...@afterbit.com> wrote: > I have installed Fail2ban on my Debian server which contains some websites. > > I have activated the "apache-fakegooglebot" filter ... now in the fail2ban > logs I see lines like this: > > 2020-05-20 17:15:43,161 fail2ban.filter [1218]: INFO > [apache-fakegooglebot] Ignore 66.249.79.114 by command > > 66.249.79.114 should be Google Bot (?) .. so my question is: does the line > above tell me that 66.249.79.114 has been banned from my website? I'd like > to prevent my website from blocking the Google bot.
Yes this confirms that this ip was not banned. The reason is that this is a genuine googlebot ip, as tested by /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/ignorecommands/apache-fakegooglebot. If you don't want to see these INFO messages, set 'loglevel = NOTICE' in fail2ban.local. _______________________________________________ Fail2ban-users mailing list Fail2ban-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users
