From 0c2eeee8c7fc4b3a26083ef2f04ebde0c96560c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sebres <serg.brester@sebres.de>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 12:53:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] BF: fail2ban-client can't unserialize IPAddr objects - added
 IPAddr pickle-handler, that simple wrap IPAddr to the str

---
 fail2ban/server/ipdns.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fail2ban/server/ipdns.py b/fail2ban/server/ipdns.py
index bca03428..880e3f30 100644
--- a/fail2ban/server/ipdns.py
+++ b/fail2ban/server/ipdns.py
@@ -233,6 +233,14 @@ class IPAddr(object):
 
 	def __str__(self):
 		return self.ntoa
+
+	def __reduce__(self):
+		"""IPAddr pickle-handler, that simple wrap IPAddr to the str
+
+		Returns a string as instance to be pickled, because fail2ban-client can't
+		unserialize IPAddr objects
+		"""
+		return (str, (self.ntoa,))
 	
 	@property
 	def addr(self):