Feefty Posted December 18, 2012 Group: Members Topic Count: 47 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 175 Reputation: 14 Joined: 11/21/11 Last Seen: April 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2012 should i use fail2ban? http://www.fail2ban.org/ because last time i used it, some of my players can't login. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winz Posted December 20, 2012 Group: Members Topic Count: 22 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1479 Reputation: 174 Joined: 12/14/11 Last Seen: November 21, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2012 well, it's just up to you. just tell you 1 thing. A, B, C, D, E, F, G are your players. All of them are using the same internet provider: X, which gives dynamic IP. C got IP no. 1 and had a bad idea that he attacked your server. fail2ban recognized it and ban the IP. The next day, other's IP restarted. C got IP 2 and do it again to your server and got banned again. The next day, D got IP 1, and F got IP 2. both of those IP are banned. then, your players would think _______________ <fill in the blank by yourself~> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitsu Posted December 24, 2012 Group: Members Topic Count: 0 Topics Per Day: 0 Content Count: 7 Reputation: 0 Joined: 01/05/12 Last Seen: May 11, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Just think of why you need fail2ban, what for ? Then edit your fail2ban config file to fit it to your server and your needs fail2ban purpose is generally to limit bruteforce attacks on ssh if some of your users are still being banned by f2b, then search for why they want to initiate a ssh connection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asura Posted January 19, 2013 Group: Members Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 707 Reputation: 168 Joined: 01/26/12 Last Seen: February 7, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Hi Feefty, Mitsu's explanation is correct. 'fail2ban' is for banning bruteforce/more-than-usual attempts to your SSH/SFTP or any other port/service you may configured it for.; so it doesn't actually do anything for network attacks (DDOS). If you are looking to beef up security for your server, I recommend CSF/LFD; http://configserver.com/cp/csf.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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should i use fail2ban? http://www.fail2ban.org/
because last time i used it, some of my players can't login.
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