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pnutjam on Sept 17, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Endlessh: An SSH Tarpit

If your passing through a NAT, you can whitelist your own IP.

something like: fail2ban-client set addignoreip x.x.x.x or fail2ban-client set addignoreregex hostname.com

boring_twenties on Sept 17, 2020 [–]

Sure. But why? We're talking about 1MB to keep a week's worth of logs. It's just not worth even a minor hassle, or the most remote possibility of failure.

pnutjam on Sept 17, 2020 | [–]

It's not about logs, it's about defense layers.

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