Fail2ban Notes
2018-08-28
Damn, so how do I unban my IP address?
Contents
List jails
fail2ban-client status
Show status of sshd jail
fail2ban-client status sshd
Show status of all fail2ban jails at once
jails=`fail2ban-client status | grep "Jail list" | sed -E 's/^[^:]+:[ \t]+//' | sed 's/,//g'`
for jail in $jails
do
fail2ban-client status $jail
done
Unban an IP
fail2ban-client unban sshd 127.0.0.1
Ban and unban
fail2ban-client ban 127.0.0.1
fail2ban-client unban 127.0.0.1
fail2ban-client set sshd banip 127.0.0.1
fail2ban-client set sshd unbanip 127.0.0.1
Retries
fail2ban-client get sshd maxretry
fail2ban-client set sshd maxretry 10
Ban time
fail2ban-client get sshd bantime # seconds
fail2ban-client set sshd bantime 3600
Start and stop jail
fail2ban-client start sshd
fail2ban-client stop sshd