Fail2Ban

Fail2Ban#

Description#

Fail2Ban scans log files like /var/log/auth.log and bans IP addresses conducting too many failed login attempts. It does this by updating system firewall rules to reject new connections from those IP addresses, for a configurable amount of time. Fail2Ban comes out-of-the-box ready to read many standard log files, such as those for sshd and Apache, and is easily configured to read any log file of your choosing, for any error you wish.

Home page for this solution: fail2ban/fail2ban

Overview#

Key

Value

Name

fail2ban

Description

Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors

License

Other

Programming Language

Python

Created

2011-09-28

Last update

2025-06-16

Github Stars

14637

Project Home Page

http://www.fail2ban.org

Code Repository

fail2ban/fail2ban

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