Permanently Ban Repeat IPs With fail2ban

[EnriqueR]

How to set a permanent ban per IP in Fail2ban??
I have banned continuously some IPs with recidibe and I need put this IPs in a permanent blacklist.

 

[Sergey L]

You will need to add those IPs in your permanent firewall configuration. But there is a risk of losing legitimate traffic later - intruders will later drop those IPs and they will be returned to some "good" customer

 

[zziz]

bantime = -1 ;
On plesk GUI, it is IP address ban period value.

 

[EnriqueR]

bantime = -1 ;
On plesk GUI, it is IP address ban period value.

I do not quite understand what you mean, or where the value is. Could you explain?

 

[Chris1]

I think what he means is that you can put the value "-1" in the ban period field and it will ban the IP permanently. I haven't tested this myself.

 

[zziz]

I do not quite understand what you mean, or where the value is. Could you explain?

sr my bad english.
I mean we can set value -1 in the IP address ban period field.
Tool & setting > Fail2ban > Setting > IP address ban period : -1 (seconds)

 

[EnriqueR]

sr my bad english.
I mean we can set value -1 in the IP address ban period field.
Tool & setting > Fail2ban > Setting > IP address ban period : -1 (seconds)

That's true, but I wish this were to some specific IPs, since it would only be for a few special cases.