Advanced Fail2ban Rules: Protecting SSH, Nginx, and WordPress from Brute Force
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Beyond Default Fail2ban Settings
Default Fail2ban configurations ban offending IP addresses for only 10 minutes. Persistent botnets simply throttle their attacks and resume probing. A hardened setup requires custom regex filters and long-term recidive jails.
jail.local Production Directives
[DEFAULT]
bantime = 1h
findtime = 10m
maxretry = 5
banaction = nftables-multiport
[recidive]
enabled = true
logpath = /var/log/fail2ban.log
bantime = 1w
findtime = 1d
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The recidive jail watches the Fail2ban log itself and applies long-term or permanent bans (e.g. 1 week to 1 year) to IPs banned repeatedly across other jails.
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