Hi Matt, Reason is fail2ban could cause you sometimes troubles in case …

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Hi Matt,


Reason is fail2ban could cause you sometimes troubles in case of DoS, where simply filtering the main IPs might work and the article’s goal is to show
the principle fail2ban makes it.

I’ve seen servers where when fail2ban is enabled causes big troubles especially if it is enabled for some non SSH protocol, so if you can do it without fail2ban in my opionion its better.

But yeah you’re right sometimes you just need fail2ban.

Regards,

Georgi

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Maximal protection against SSH attacks. If your server has to stay with open SSH (Secure Shell) port open to the world
What kernel and Linux distro / version?


Maximal protection against SSH attacks. If your server has to stay with open SSH (Secure Shell) port open to the world
No I don’t know this one, but it looks something similar to fail2ban. If you try it and have experience with it I’ll be glad to know about it.

Thx!
see ya around


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