5 ms·Wow - why didn't I think of just setting up a firewall instead of running fail2ban. Great idea.by johnghanks 6y agoWow - why didn't I think of just setting up a firewall instead of running fail2ban. Great idea._joel 6y agoeh, fail2ban uses iptables to ban?joana035 6y agoFail2ban uses whatever one wants to do whatever one need based on logs pattern matching :-)seized 6y agoFail2Ban can execute scripts etc to do things. I have mine making API calls to OPNsense to block IPs there.