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    Question Fail2ban trying to setup a rule to ban ai bots

    Hello plesk users, we are trying to setup a fail2ban jail filter rule which can ban most badbots and mainly the big 4 aws-amazon, ovh, alibaba, and hetzner. We had follow from plesk official and/or from talk forum...
    • Tomsohner
    • Thread
    • ai badbots amazonbot aws-badbots badbots fail2ban fail2ban jail jail jail filter
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Open Topics
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    Issue Filter for plesk-wordpress jail does not work, any ideas?

    Hi, It seems the default installation of fail2ban does not work to block wordpress logins. For example, this is the log of one of our wordpress sites: And many more lines. However the IP is not blocked by the wordpress jail (or any other jail) So I assume this jail is not working. I didn´t...
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    Resolved How to recognize fail2ban filter

    I want to specify the following filter in Plesk fail2ban. Even though I create it in filter management, when I create a new jail it does not appear in the menu as an option in the list of filters. I'm able to create the filter itself, but cannot specify it in new jail. How can I specify the...
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    Question Customized firewall rules and fail2ban jail

    I find the firewall rules names quite confusing. For example, the name of SMPT: SMTP (mail sending) server. Does this mean the smtp ports 25 and 465? I want to create my own custom rules and have some screenshots with settings below. Are these the correct settings? This is the image of SMTP...
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    Question Make recidive in fail2ban more efficient

    I want to make my recidive efficient in a way i could ban returning hackers which try to bruteforce postfix. I observe that hackers have thousands of servers over the whole world so thinking of a way to ban most of them, so maybe i could use fail2ban + geoIP and ban half of the world (but i did...
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    Resolved Fail2ban Jails are inactive

    I noticed that a lot of my fail2ban jails are inactive when trying to activate them I get this Unable to switch on the selected jails: f2bmng failed: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/fail2ban-client", line 470, in if client.start(sys.argv): File "/usr/bin/fail2ban-client"...
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    Resolved fail2ban and plesk-proftpd jail

    Hi all, I have enabled fail2ban with basic Plesk settings , including "plesk-proftpd" jail. According to the jail rule : [plesk-proftpd] enabled = true filter = proftpd action = iptables-multiport[name="plesk-proftpd", port="ftp,ftp-data,ftps,ftps-data"] logpath = /var/log/secure maxretry = 5...
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