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Question Fail2ban filters do not work

alexk345

Regular Pleskian
I have 236 ips banned by recidive but none banned by sasl and nomatch
Anyone know ?

fail2ban-regex -v /var/log/maillog /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/nomatch.conf
matches 100 ip but i dont see it in plesk fail2ban banned ip list.
 
SASL filter had some problems - perhaps you got burned by that..
my /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/sasl.conf reads:

[Definition]

# Option: failregex
# Notes.: regex to match the password failures messages in the logfile. The
# host must be matched by a group named "host". The tag "<HOST>" can
# be used for standard IP/hostname matching and is only an alias for
# (?:::f{4,6}:)?(?P<host>[\w\-.^_]+)
# Values: TEXT

failregex = (?i): warning: [-._\w]+\[<HOST>\]: SASL (?:LOGIN|PLAIN|(?:CRAM|DIGEST)-MD5) authentication failed:) [A-Za-z0-9+/ ]*)?$

# Option: ignoreregex
# Notes.: regex to ignore. If this regex matches, the line is ignored.
# Values: TEXT
#
ignoreregex =

and it works..
 
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