On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:54:42AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:59:41PM +0100, Roel van der Made wrote: > > Wouldn't it be nice to have an enhancement on fail2ban which sends an > > abuse-mail to the ip-block/range owner which has been blocked? > > No, that would not be nice. As somebody who has been on the > hostmaster, netmaster, postmaster and abuse alias of an ISP for years > I can say that automatically generated abuse mails are generally not > helpful as they can easily amount to a denial-of-service condition.
Agreed on that. > It is ok to have fail2ban prepare the messages to be _checked_ and > sent manually, but I would rather not see an automatism which will > actually send out the complaints. Indeed, the preparation option would be nice, I now see hosts beeing blocked several times a day and nothing it beeing done with it anymore, which is a shame I think. Curious how others think about this. Tnx Roel. > > Greetings > Marc > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header > Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 > Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
