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fail2ban is a log prettifier, doesn't actually add anything to security.

• mp4box 12y ago
  from the user's profile https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kbar13 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kbar13 "I work for Linode, but everything I say is me being an idiot." so..
  • threeseed 12y ago
    Given Linode's security record being an idiot or not seems irrelevant to me.
  • forgottenpass 12y ago
    ...so what exactly is it you're trying to read into his self-deprecation? Because it's not there.
• agranig 12y ago
  Could you elaborate on that? fail2ban seems quite popular for blocking malicious IPs.
• pronoiac 12y ago
  No, fail2ban watches logs for repeatedly failed login attempts, and then blackholes given IPs using firewall rules. I prefer denyhosts, which is more ssh-specific.