03-15-2017, 05:30 PM
Hi Brian
After doing some digging there may be a way of putting permanent blocks in place but does require some 'fiddling';
https://serverfault.com/questions/415040/permanent-block-of-ip-after-n-retries-using-fail2ban
In terms of the jail.local there is an interesting tutorial made about copying the jail.conf into a jail.local;
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-ssh-with-fail2ban-on-ubuntu-14-04
Hope you can work out what needs to be done your end as it does get unless you can see what's going on.
It will be interesting to see if a negative number of bantime gives a permanent ban or not
After doing some digging there may be a way of putting permanent blocks in place but does require some 'fiddling';
https://serverfault.com/questions/415040/permanent-block-of-ip-after-n-retries-using-fail2ban
In terms of the jail.local there is an interesting tutorial made about copying the jail.conf into a jail.local;
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-ssh-with-fail2ban-on-ubuntu-14-04
Hope you can work out what needs to be done your end as it does get unless you can see what's going on.
It will be interesting to see if a negative number of bantime gives a permanent ban or not