{"id":2216,"date":"2008-07-08T04:36:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T04:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t.motd.kr\/articles\/2216\/using-fail2ban-to-refuse-brute-force-attacks"},"modified":"2022-12-28T01:45:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T16:45:44","slug":"using-fail2ban-to-refuse-brute-force-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault.motd.kr\/wordpress\/posts\/2216\/using-fail2ban-to-refuse-brute-force-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Fail2Ban to refuse brute-force attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been using a quick and dirty shell script to update <code>\/etc\/hosts.deny<\/code> file when brute-force attack flows into my server. It was pretty effective but was not effective enough to block the break-in attempts immediately. Today, I found a better solution \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fail2ban.org\/\">Fail2Ban<\/a>. It scans the system log files and bans brute-force attacks for a certain period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most examples use <code>iptables<\/code>, but I always prefer <code>\/etc\/hosts.deny<\/code> and I don\u2019t even care about unbanning once a host is banned. Therefore, I added the following to <code>\/etc\/fail2ban\/jail.conf<\/code>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&#91;ssh-hostsdeny]\nenabled  = true\nfilter   = sshd\naction   = hostsdeny-nounban\n           mail-whois&#91;name=SSH, dest=mail@example.com]\nlogpath  = \/var\/log\/messages\n\n&#91;ssh-ddos-hostsdeny]\nenabled  = true\nfilter   = sshd-ddos\naction   = hostsdeny-nounban\n           mail-whois&#91;name=SSH-DDoS, dest=mail@example.com]\nlogpath  = \/var\/log\/messages<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that I defined a new action called <code>hostsdeny-nounban<\/code>, which doesn\u2019t unban the attacker\u2019s IP address once banned It\u2019s <code>\/etc\/fail2ban\/action.d\/hostsdeny-nounban.conf<\/code>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&#91;Definition]\nactionstart =\nactionstop =\nactioncheck =\nactionban = IP=&lt;ip> &amp;&amp; grep -q \"ALL: $IP\" &lt;file> || echo \"ALL: $IP\" >> &lt;file>\nactionunban =\n\n&#91;Init]\nfile = \/etc\/hosts.deny<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, I\u2019d recommend you to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/gentoo-wiki.com\/HOWTO_fail2ban\">Gentoo <span class=\"caps\">HOWTO<\/span> fail2ban<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been using a quick and dirty shell script to update \/etc\/hosts.deny file when brute-force attack flows into my server. 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