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Hello, Thanks. |
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The answer for this blurred question can only be RTFM... |
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Just noticed the subject - "Blocking regardless of findtime". Well, it is complicated - one can surely set findtime to something large, like
Something like Anyway by large Also note that a restart of fail2ban will clean all current failures (fail-manager list of all jails becomes empty, and in opposite to active banned IPs, the failed attempts would not be restored from database), so As an additional hint: instead of large |
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Just noticed the subject - "Blocking regardless of findtime".
So the emphasis of question seems to be on regardless of findtime.
Well, it is complicated - one can surely set findtime to something large, like
findtime = 1y
(1 year), but...Physically it would mean:
maxretry
) would be hold by fail2ban in a fail-manager list of jail for 1 year, because it'd wait formaxretry
attempts from IP, so it'd disappear at the earliest 1 year after last attempt, even if that was a single accidental attempt, let alone some dynamic IP;