How to install and configure Fail2ban on Linux

Posted by linuxer on Oct 8, 2023 4:21 AM EDT
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Fail2ban is a free and open source software we can use to mitigate brute force and DoS/DDoS attacks: it scans log files for multiple failed authentication attempts and bans related IP addresses by creating ad-hoc firewall rules. In this tutorial, we see how to install and configure fail2ban on Linux, and we learn the basic concepts behind its usage.

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