# Fail2Ban configuration file. # # This file was composed for Debian systems from the original one # provided now under /usr/share/doc/fail2ban/examples/jail.conf # for additional examples. # # Comments: use '#' for comment lines and ';' for inline comments # # To avoid merges during upgrades DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE # and rather provide your changes in /etc/fail2ban/jail.local # # The DEFAULT allows a global definition of the options. They can be overridden # in each jail afterwards. [DEFAULT] # "ignoreip" can be an IP address, a CIDR mask or a DNS host. Fail2ban will not # ban a host which matches an address in this list. Several addresses can be # defined using space separator. ignoreip = 127.0.0.1/8 # "bantime" is the number of seconds that a host is banned. bantime = 10800 # A host is banned if it has generated "maxretry" during the last "findtime" # seconds. findtime = 10800 maxretry = 3 # "backend" specifies the backend used to get files modification. # Available options are "pyinotify", "gamin", "polling" and "auto". # This option can be overridden in each jail as well. # # pyinotify: requires pyinotify (a file alteration monitor) to be installed. # If pyinotify is not installed, Fail2ban will use auto. # gamin: requires Gamin (a file alteration monitor) to be installed. # If Gamin is not installed, Fail2ban will use auto. # polling: uses a polling algorithm which does not require external libraries. # auto: will try to use the following backends, in order: # pyinotify, gamin, polling. backend = gamin # "usedns" specifies if jails should trust hostnames in logs, # warn when reverse DNS lookups are performed, or ignore all hostnames in logs # # yes: if a hostname is encountered, a reverse DNS lookup will be performed. # warn: if a hostname is encountered, a reverse DNS lookup will be performed, # but it will be logged as a warning. # no: if a hostname is encountered, will not be used for banning, # but it will be logged as info. usedns = warn # # Destination email address used solely for the interpolations in # jail.{conf,local} configuration files. destemail = root@localhost # # Name of the sender for mta actions sendername = Fail2Ban # # ACTIONS # # Default banning action (e.g. iptables, iptables-new, # iptables-multiport, shorewall, etc) It is used to define # action_* variables. Can be overridden globally or per # section within jail.local file banaction = iptables-multiport # email action. Since 0.8.1 upstream fail2ban uses sendmail # MTA for the mailing. Change mta configuration parameter to mail # if you want to revert to conventional 'mail'. mta = sendmail # Default protocol protocol = tcp # Specify chain where jumps would need to be added in iptables-* actions chain = INPUT # # Action shortcuts. To be used to define action parameter # The simplest action to take: ban only action_ = %(banaction)s[name=%(__name__)s, port="%(port)s", protocol="%(protocol)s", chain="%(chain)s"] # ban & send an e-mail with whois report to the destemail. action_mw = %(banaction)s[name=%(__name__)s, port="%(port)s", protocol="%(protocol)s", chain="%(chain)s"] %(mta)s-whois[name=%(__name__)s, dest="%(destemail)s", protocol="%(protocol)s", chain="%(chain)s", sendername="%(sendername)s"] # ban & send an e-mail with whois report and relevant log lines # to the destemail. action_mwl = %(banaction)s[name=%(__name__)s, port="%(port)s", protocol="%(protocol)s", chain="%(chain)s"] %(mta)s-whois-lines[name=%(__name__)s, dest="%(destemail)s", logpath=%(logpath)s, chain="%(chain)s", sendername="%(sendername)s"] # Choose default action. To change, just override value of 'action' with the # interpolation to the chosen action shortcut (e.g. action_mw, action_mwl, etc) in jail.local # globally (section [DEFAULT]) or per specific section action = %(action_)s # # JAILS # [ssh] enabled = true port = ssh filter = sshd logpath = /var/log/auth.log maxretry = 6 # # Mail servers # [postfix] enabled = true port = smtp,ssmtp,submission filter = postfix logpath = /var/log/mail/mail.log # # Mail servers authenticators: might be used for smtp,ftp,imap servers, so # all relevant ports get banned # [sasl] enabled = true port = smtp,ssmtp,submission,imap2,imap3,imaps,pop3,pop3s filter = postfix-sasl # You might consider monitoring /var/log/mail.warn instead if you are # running postfix since it would provide the same log lines at the # "warn" level but overall at the smaller filesize. logpath = /var/log/mail/mail.log [dovecot] enabled = true port = smtp,ssmtp,submission,imap2,imap3,imaps,pop3,pop3s filter = dovecot logpath = /var/log/mail/mail.log # Jail for more extended banning of persistent abusers # !!! WARNING !!! # Make sure that your loglevel specified in fail2ban.conf/.local # is not at DEBUG level -- which might then cause fail2ban to fall into # an infinite loop constantly feeding itself with non-informative lines [recidive] enabled = false filter = recidive logpath = /var/log/fail2ban.log action = iptables-allports[name=recidive] sendmail-whois-lines[name=recidive, logpath=/var/log/fail2ban.log]