When I first set up fail2ban it was because I got annoyed that the machine on my desk was making regular "clunk...clunk...clunk" noises from the hard disk as it

When I first set up fail2ban it was because I got annoyed that the machine on my desk was making regular "clunk...clunk...clunk" noises from the hard disk as it wrote another failed-auth attempt to the log every second or so...