On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 09:02:47AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Yes John. But explain to me what fail2ban is sopposed to do?
It's supposed to "monitor" (tail -F equivalent) your log files, and look for anomalies. If it finds one, it's supposed to take action, which is typically adding an entry to iptables. > Its running, but has failed to ban anything no matter what sort of 403's > I return. You need to configure it. Tell it what log files to read, what is to be considered an anomaly, and what action to take.