Bonjour, When fail2ban bans an IP, I mostly receive a message like this:
Hi, The IP 117.216.138.77 has just been banned by Fail2Ban after 2 attempts against sshd. Here is more information about 117.216.138.77 : % [whois.apnic.net] % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html % Information related to '117.216.0.0 - 117.217.255.255' % Abuse contact for '117.216.0.0 - 117.217.255.255' is 'abu...@bsnl.co.in'
etc. But sometimes, I receive a message like this:
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....... What does it mean? Thank you F.P. _______________________________________________ Fail2ban-users mailing list Fail2ban-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users
