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In this particular case this is the % ifconfig | grep inet To check our IP as always issue this command: We give it a time to play, a maximum attempts to successfully login and how many seconds the IP will be banned in case it fails to provide the credentials.Īfter this we will configure the main file for our firewall type by giving the localhost sentence the real IP we are using. Once this is set the path to the log to check comes next. After that we tell it what actions to take, and that is based on the ipfw firewall, the name of the service, the port and the protocol.

Then we state what to filter and our answer is the ssh daemon. We will create our configuration % sudo vi /usr/local/etc/fail2ban/jail.d/ssh-ipfw.localĪction = ipfwįirst we state the service and the firewall type. In Fail2ban there is a directory named jail.d (not to be confused with FreeBSD jails) where you set the services you want to protect. Others will use PF and it doesn’t work very differently for Fail2ban. Here is a simple example of setting it up. In this scenario I am using IPFW firewall. Let’s tackle the first goal which is protecting the SSH service. The process will require 108 MiB more space. The following 4 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
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I will select the latter but both work the % sudo pkg install p圓6-fail2ban-0.10.3.1_1 There are two versions, one running on Python2 and another one on Python3.
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P圓6-fail2ban-0.10.1_1 Scans log files and bans IP that makes too many password % Py27-fail2ban-0.10.1_1 Scans log files and bans IP that makes too many password failures Let’s look for the package we are % pkg search fail2ban This is our FreeBSD server and uname makes the % uname -aįreeBSD host 11.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Aug 14 21:45: % It is not necessary for what we’re doing though. If you want to do that install there’s a guide already.
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So here we are on this server which already happens to have a full WordPress site. And that will be automatically written in your firewall configuration, be it whatever you may be using, from the Linux Iptables, IPFW from FreeBSD, PF which is used in FreeBSD, comes from OpenBSD but used in macOS and Solaris. You can determine the services to filter, the max failed login attempts prior to banning, the time the IP will be banned, etc. Malicious actors know this and this is the reason you see “people” knocking at your server saying they are the admin user or even john and their password is bla bla bla.įail2ban prevents brute force attacks by banning the failed login IPs. If one password is used here it may well be used somewhere else. Those who have been stolen in very notorious intrusions and their creators collected in the black market. Bots which are also equipped with dictionaries of usernames and passwords. People has programmed bots to do that in a big scale and automatically for them, only reporting the successful logins. And no, there is not a legion of people manually trying to get into your home’s or office’s network. Nowadays you put a device connected to the internet and it seems like the world wants to get inside of it and tear it apart. If you’ve never done that you can click on this link and look at the picture I placed for the failed logins in a firewall I had a couple or years ago.

If you ever logged in to the router web page at home you may have already visited the corner where the failed login attempts are logged. If you find the articles in useful to you, please consider making a donation. Not only to steal information (which may be irrelevant and useless) but to use your computer, your computer’s identity, power, etc.

The answer is similar to the one I gave on the firewall article, people, bots trying to reach your server, your device. Why? Why do I need such a tool since I already have a firewall in place. But first of all some of you, as I did quite some time ago now, may be asking a simple question. There is much more to read and enjoy from the official project’s documentation.
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In this how to install Fail2ban on FreeBSD I will just cover two services to protect SSH connections. It can filter not only ssh logins, but other services too, for example CMS web sites as WordPress or Drupal, repositories such as your own GitLab, and even your Postfix (or other) mail server. It is compatible with many UNIX-like systems and is a security tool to have in your arsenal. It works by scanning log files and bans IPs which present suspicious activity such as failed logins. Fail2ban is a complementary tool to your firewall.
