Howto ban IP with Fail2Ban manually by command lin

Question

How do I ban an attacker IP with Fail2Ban manually by command line?

Answer 1

sudo fail2ban-client -vvv set JAIL banip WW.XX.YY.ZZ

Check the jail where to add the IP using sudo fail2ban-client status

Answer 2

I use ipset with iptables. Ipset allows you to add ip addresses to a blacklist that can be enforced via iptables. Here is a full explation and an example below:

# install it
apt-get install ipset

# create a blacklist
ipset create blacklist hash:ip hashsize 4096

# add the blacklist to your iptables rules
iptables -I INPUT -m set --match-set blacklist src -j DROP
iptables -I FORWARD -m set --match-set blacklist src -j DROP

# check that rule is set in iptables
iptables -L

# now add the offending ip address
ipset add blacklist ip.address

# check that the ip address is in your blacklist
ipset list blacklist

You're all set.

Answer 3

You ban him manually by adding his IP to the firewall. If you are using UFW, then you write something like this in your command line:

ufw insert 1 deny from <ip> to any

But you do not want to do that manually - the purpose of Fail2Ban is to ban someone automatically. Use this tutorial to configure Fail2Ban to automatically update your UFW rules. The importan part is to add banaction = ufw-SOMETHING to your jail.conf, and then create ufw-SOMETHING.conf in the /etc/fail2ban/action.d/ folder with the following content:

[Definition]
actionstart =
actionstop =
actioncheck =
actionban = ufw insert 1 deny from <ip> to any
actionunban = ufw delete deny from <ip> to any

This will ban the IP completely for a predefined amount of time. If you want to ban him until next reboot, omit the actionunban command.

Answer 4

sudo fail2ban-client -vvv  'set' 'jail' 'banip' 'ip'

Definitely works as the manual solution. Just login via ssh and execute.

only thing is I keep getting "beatify" messages?

Also not sure if this will ban an ip range e.g. enter '185.130.5' to ban all ranges from '185.130.5.0' to 255?