- failure-prone addresses by updating existing firewall rules. The
- software was completely rewritten at version 0.7.0 and now allows
- easy specification of different actions to be taken such as to ban an
- IP using iptables or hostsdeny rules, or simply to send a
- notification email. Currently, by default, supports ssh/apache/vsftpd
- but configuration can be easily extended for monitoring any other ASCII
- file. All filters and actions are given in the config files, thus
- fail2ban can be adopted to be used with a variety of files and
- firewalls.
+ failure-prone addresses by updating existing firewall rules. Fail2ban
+ allows easy specification of different actions to be taken such as to
+ ban an IP using iptables or hostsdeny rules, or simply to send a
+ notification email.