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+# Fail2Ban configuration file
+#
+# Author: Cyril Jaquier
+#
+# $Revision: 267 $
+#
+
+[Definition]
+
+# Option:  failregex
+# Notes.:  regex to match the password failures messages in the logfile. The
+#          host must be matched by a group named "host". The tag "<HOST>" can
+#          be used for standard IP/hostname matching and is only an alias for
+#          (?:::f{4,6}:)?(?P<host>\S+)
+# Values:  TEXT
+#
+failregex = \[<HOST>\] .*(?:rejected by local_scan|Unrouteable address)
+
+# Option:  ignoreregex
+# Notes.:  regex to ignore. If this regex matches, the line is ignored.
+# Values:  TEXT
+#
+ignoreregex =