We use Fail2Ban with pfSense with a custom php script (on the firewall)
that adds the appropriate firewall rules.
We have fail2ban set up with multiple levels - so the action to ban in
pfSense only happens after several attempts at other services on one
machine. That way we can assume the ban should be permanent.

Talk about a real API has come up before, but last time I looked into it,
the current authentication system would make it very difficult.

- Y


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Aristedes Maniatis <[email protected]> wrote:

> We get a lot of attempts to guess weak ftp passwords on our servers. A
> tool which we've used before (and is really nice) is fail2ban. In response
> to a certain type or number of failed attempts, it can run a script (for
> example, to load a firewall rule blocking that user).
>
> However, we'd ideally like to add those rules at the firewall rather than
> the individual ftp servers. Has anyone attempted something similar.
> Ideally, an API in pfSense which allowed us to send through ip addresses to
> add to a list. They would be added to a deny table and purged after some
> period of time.
>
> Does this sound useful? Has anyone managed a similar problem?
>
> Ari
>
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