Re: [CentOS] fail2ban behavior

2010-08-09 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 00:38 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I created a filter and verified it with fail2ban-regex against actual lines in my log and it works. During restarts of fail2ban, only some previous ip's get banned immediately whereas some need a reoccurrence despite the jail's config

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban behavior

2010-08-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Stop it at the Edge Router not the machine. Fair enough, but now I have to manually scour the logs and maintain a dynamic block list? Adding layers of security become problems like you are getting. I agree, and if my edge router had the functionality to inspect http requests I would:) Ban the

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban behavior

2010-08-09 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 13:58 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: ? That's what fail2ban is setup to do, as the email suggested its not restoring bans correctly on restarts. --- http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Fail2ban:Community_Portal Question about persistant IP bans over restart I

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban behavior

2010-08-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Fail2ban:Community_Portal Question about persistant IP bans over restart I think you need to adapt the example to CentOS/RH Yeah, I saw that one and implemented it. I think I have to rewrite the action scripts my jails use. The odd part is the initial

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban behavior

2010-08-09 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:29 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Fail2ban:Community_Portal Question about persistant IP bans over restart I think you need to adapt the example to CentOS/RH Yeah, I saw that one and implemented it. I think I have to rewrite

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban behavior

2010-08-09 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 13:58 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I agree, and if my edge router had the functionality to inspect http requests I would:) --- Ahh, so is it really http requests you want to stop? John ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban behavior

2010-08-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Or block all networks like china,japan,india and so on. Can get these from ICANN. Actually. that might just be enough, I know this site won't need access from other that NA addresses which is an easy rule to build permanently. Thanks, jlc ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban behavior

2010-08-09 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 16:05 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Or block all networks like china,japan,india and so on. Can get these from ICANN. Actually. that might just be enough, I know this site won't need access from other that NA addresses which is an easy rule to build permanently. ---

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban behavior

2010-08-09 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 12:12 -0400, JohnS wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 16:05 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Or block all networks like china,japan,india and so on. Can get these from ICANN. Actually. that might just be enough, I know this site won't need access from other that NA

[CentOS] fail2ban behavior

2010-08-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I created a filter and verified it with fail2ban-regex against actual lines in my log and it works. During restarts of fail2ban, only some previous ip's get banned immediately whereas some need a reoccurrence despite the jail's config specification of maxretry and findtime suggesting the entries