Hi
I have notice sometime now that my mailserver have to work hard to ban IP addresses.
I have now change so it ban 2 weeks but is it possible to put them in a list that ban them forever or at least a 6 month or a year?
Hi cazz
On Security > Fail2ban, you have to check the Recidive jail is perpetual in Web interface then,
fail2ban-client set recidive banip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
or for a range of IP addresses
fail2ban-client set recidive banip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/24
Michel-André
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Well it is check but I dot not understand where I write
fail2ban-client set recidive banip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Do I have to do that from SSH?
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Hi cazz,
At the server console or at the ssh connection.
Michel-André
Is it possible to run it with a wildcard?
Have now 8 ban from almost same ip address (just the last one is different)
@stephdl am i wrong telling that subnet notation can be used only on whitelist, for Fail2ban?
On holidays, so not in front a computer, but I think I never implemented a wildcard way to ban IP, or for the whitelist textarea @pike
I am quite confident on the job of fail2ban, it will ban on all next attempts, so why to bother to ban a subnet, this is the job of your firewall
Sorry buggin’ you stephdl, have nice holidays
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ok, have to look att my firewall if I going to do something about it 
Have a nice holiday
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