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Fail2Ban (version 0.8.4) 2008/??/??
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Fail2Ban (version 0.8.4) 2009/02/??
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ver. 0.8.4 (2008/??/??) - stable
ver. 0.8.4 (2009/??/??) - stable
----------
- Merged patches from Debian package. Thanks to Yaroslav
Halchenko.
- Use current day and month instead of Jan 1st if both are
not available in the log. Thanks to Andreas Itzchak
Rehberg.
- Try to match the regex even if the line does not contain a
valid date/time. Described in Debian #491253. Thanks to
Yaroslav Halchenko.
- Merged patches from Debian package. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko.
- Use current day and month instead of Jan 1st if both are not available in the
log. Thanks to Andreas Itzchak Rehberg.
- Try to match the regex even if the line does not contain a valid date/time.
Described in Debian #491253. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko.
- Added/improved filters and date formats.
- Added actions to report abuse to ISP, DShield and
myNetWatchman. Thanks to Russell Odom.
- Suse init script. Remove socket file on startup is fail2ban
crashed. Thanks to Detlef Reichelt.
- Removed begin-line anchor for "standard" timestamp. Fixed
Debian bug #500824.
- Added actions to report abuse to ISP, DShield and myNetWatchman. Thanks to
Russell Odom.
- Suse init script. Remove socket file on startup is fail2ban crashed. Thanks to
Detlef Reichelt.
- Removed begin-line anchor for "standard" timestamp. Fixed Debian bug #500824.
- Added nagios script. Thanks to Sebastian Mueller.
- Added CPanel date format. Thanks to David Collins. Tracker
#1967610.
- Improved SASL filter. Thanks to Loic Pefferkorn. Tracker
#2310410.
- Added NetBSD ipfilter (ipf command) action. Thanks to Ed
Ravin. Tracker #2484115.
- Added cyrus-imap and sieve filters. Thanks to Jan Wagner.
Debian bug #513953.
- Changed <HOST> template to be more restrictive. Debian bug
#514163.
- Use timetuple instead of utctimetuple for ISO 8601. Maybe
not a 100% correct fix but seems to work. Tracker #2500276.
- Made the named-refused regex a bit less restrictive in
order to match logs with "view". Thanks to Stephen Gildea.
- Fixed maxretry/findtime rate. Many thanks to Christos
Psonis. Tracker #2019714.
- Added CPanel date format. Thanks to David Collins. Tracker #1967610.
- Improved SASL filter. Thanks to Loic Pefferkorn. Tracker #2310410.
- Added NetBSD ipfilter (ipf command) action. Thanks to Ed Ravin. Tracker
#2484115.
- Added cyrus-imap and sieve filters. Thanks to Jan Wagner. Debian bug #513953.
- Changed <HOST> template to be more restrictive. Debian bug #514163.
- Use timetuple instead of utctimetuple for ISO 8601. Maybe not a 100% correct
fix but seems to work. Tracker #2500276.
- Made the named-refused regex a bit less restrictive in order to match logs
with "view". Thanks to Stephen Gildea.
- Fixed maxretry/findtime rate. Many thanks to Christos Psonis. Tracker
#2019714.
ver. 0.8.3 (2008/07/17) - stable
----------
- Process failtickets as long as failmanager is not empty.
- Added "pam-generic" filter and more configuration fixes.
Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko.
- Fixed socket path in redhat and suse init script. Thanks to
Jim Wight.
- Fixed PID file while started in daemon mode. Thanks to
Christian Jobic who submitted a similar patch.
- Added "pam-generic" filter and more configuration fixes. Thanks to Yaroslav
Halchenko.
- Fixed socket path in redhat and suse init script. Thanks to Jim Wight.
- Fixed PID file while started in daemon mode. Thanks to Christian Jobic who
submitted a similar patch.
- Fixed "fail2ban-client get <jail> logpath". Bug #1916986.
- Added gssftpd filter. Thanks to Kevin Zembower.
- Added "Day/Month/Year Hour:Minute:Second" date template.
Thanks to Dennis Winter.
- Fixed ignoreregex processing in fail2ban-client. Thanks to
René Berber.
- Added "Day/Month/Year Hour:Minute:Second" date template. Thanks to Dennis
Winter.
- Fixed ignoreregex processing in fail2ban-client. Thanks to René Berber.
- Added ISO 8601 date/time format.
- Added and changed some logging level and messages.
- Added missing ignoreregex to filters. Thanks to Klaus
Lehmann.
- Use poll instead of select in asyncore.loop. This should
solve the "Unknown error 514". Thanks to Michael Geiger and
Klaus Lehmann.
- Added missing ignoreregex to filters. Thanks to Klaus Lehmann.
- Use poll instead of select in asyncore.loop. This should solve the "Unknown
error 514". Thanks to Michael Geiger and Klaus Lehmann.
ver. 0.8.2 (2008/03/06) - stable
----------
- Fixed named filter. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Fixed wrong path for apache-auth in jail.conf. Thanks to
Vincent Deffontaines
- Fixed timezone bug with epoch date template. Thanks to
Michael Hanselmann
- Added "full line failregex" patch. Thanks to Yaroslav
Halchenko. It will be possible to create stronger failregex
against log injection
- Fixed wrong path for apache-auth in jail.conf. Thanks to Vincent Deffontaines
- Fixed timezone bug with epoch date template. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
- Added "full line failregex" patch. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko. It will be
possible to create stronger failregex against log injection
- Fixed ipfw action script. Thanks to Nick Munger
- Removed date from logging message when using SYSLOG. Thanks
to Iain Lea
- Fixed "ignore IPs". Only the first value was taken into
account. Thanks to Adrien Clerc
- Removed date from logging message when using SYSLOG. Thanks to Iain Lea
- Fixed "ignore IPs". Only the first value was taken into account. Thanks to
Adrien Clerc
- Moved socket to /var/run/fail2ban.
- Rewrote the communication server.
- Refactoring. Reduced number of files.
- Removed Python 2.4. Minimum required version is now Python
2.3.
- Removed Python 2.4. Minimum required version is now Python 2.3.
- New log rotation detection algorithm.
- Print monitored files in status.
- Create a PID file in /var/run/fail2ban/. Thanks to Julien
Perez.
- Fixed "Feb 29" bug. Thanks to James Andrewartha who pointed
this out. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko for the fix.
- "reload <jail>" reloads a single jail and the parameters in
fail2ban.conf.
- Create a PID file in /var/run/fail2ban/. Thanks to Julien Perez.
- Fixed "Feb 29" bug. Thanks to James Andrewartha who pointed this out. Thanks
to Yaroslav Halchenko for the fix.
- "reload <jail>" reloads a single jail and the parameters in fail2ban.conf.
- Added Mac OS/X startup script. Thanks to Bill Heaton.
- Absorbed some Debian patches. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko.
- Replaced "echo" with "printf" in actions. Fix #1839673
- Replaced "reject" with "drop" in shorwall action. Fix
#1854875
- Replaced "reject" with "drop" in shorwall action. Fix #1854875
- Fixed Debian bug #456567, #468477, #462060, #461426
- readline is now optional in fail2ban-client (not needed in
fail2ban-server).
- readline is now optional in fail2ban-client (not needed in fail2ban-server).
ver. 0.8.1 (2007/08/14) - stable
----------
- Fixed vulnerability in sshd.conf. Thanks to Daniel B. Cid
- Expand <HOST> in ignoreregex. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Improved regular expressions. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
and others
- Added sendmail actions. The action started with "mail" are
now deprecated. Thanks to Raphaël Marichez
- Improved regular expressions. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko and others
- Added sendmail actions. The action started with "mail" are now deprecated.
Thanks to Raphaël Marichez
- Added "ignoreregex" support to fail2ban-regex
- Updated suse-initd and added it to MANIFEST. Thanks to
Christian Rauch
- Tightening up the pid check in redhat-initd. Thanks to
David Nutter
- Added webmin authentication filter. Thanks to Guillaume
Delvit
- Removed textToDns() which is not required anymore. Thanks
to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added new action iptables-allports. Thanks to Yaroslav
Halchenko
- Added "named" date format to date detector. Thanks to
Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added filter file for named (bind9). Thanks to Yaroslav
- Updated suse-initd and added it to MANIFEST. Thanks to Christian Rauch
- Tightening up the pid check in redhat-initd. Thanks to David Nutter
- Added webmin authentication filter. Thanks to Guillaume Delvit
- Removed textToDns() which is not required anymore. Thanks to Yaroslav
Halchenko
- Added new action iptables-allports. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added "named" date format to date detector. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added filter file for named (bind9). Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Fixed vsftpd filter. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
ver. 0.8.0 (2007/05/03) - stable
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- Fixed asctime pattern in datedetector.py
- Added new filters/actions. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added Suse init script and modified gentoo-initd. Thanks to
Christian Rauch
- Added Suse init script and modified gentoo-initd. Thanks to Christian Rauch
- Moved every locking statements in a try..finally block
ver. 0.7.7 (2007/02/08) - release candidate
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- Added signal handling in fail2ban-client
- Added a wonderful visual effect when waiting on the server
- fail2ban-client returns an error code if configuration is
not valid
- fail2ban-client returns an error code if configuration is not valid
- Added new filters/actions. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Call Python interpreter directly (instead of using "env")
- Added file support to fail2ban-regex. Benchmark feature has
been removed
- Added file support to fail2ban-regex. Benchmark feature has been removed
- Added cacti script and template.
- Added IP list in "status <JAIL>". Thanks to Eric Gerbier
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- Use /dev/log for SYSLOG output. Thanks to Joerg Sommrey
- Use numeric output for iptables in "actioncheck"
- Fixed removal of host in hosts.deny. Thanks to René Berber
- Added new date format (2006-12-21 06:43:20) and Exim4
filter. Thanks to mEDI
- Several "failregex" and "ignoreregex" are now accepted.
Creation of rules should be easier now.
- Added new date format (2006-12-21 06:43:20) and Exim4 filter. Thanks to mEDI
- Several "failregex" and "ignoreregex" are now accepted. Creation of rules
should be easier now.
- Added license in COPYING. Thanks to Axel Thimm
- Allow comma in action options. The value of the option must
be escaped with " or '. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Now Fail2ban goes in /usr/share/fail2ban instead of
/usr/lib/fail2ban. This is more compliant with FHS. Thanks
to Axel Thimm and Yaroslav Halchenko
- Allow comma in action options. The value of the option must be escaped with "
or '. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Now Fail2ban goes in /usr/share/fail2ban instead of /usr/lib/fail2ban. This is
more compliant with FHS. Thanks to Axel Thimm and Yaroslav Halchenko
ver. 0.7.5 (2006/12/07) - beta
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- Do not ban a host that is currently banned. Thanks to
Yaroslav Halchenko
- The supported tags in "action(un)ban" are <ip>, <failures>
and <time>
- Do not ban a host that is currently banned. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- The supported tags in "action(un)ban" are <ip>, <failures> and <time>
- Fixed refactoring bug (getLastcommand -> getLastAction)
- Added option "ignoreregex" in filter scripts and jail.conf.
Feature Request #1283304
- Added option "ignoreregex" in filter scripts and jail.conf. Feature Request
#1283304
- Fixed a bug in user defined time regex/pattern
- Improved documentation
- Moved version.py and protocol.py to common/
- Merged "maxtime" option with "findtime"
- Added "<HOST>" tag support in failregex which matches
default IP address/hostname. "(?P<host>\S)" is still valid
and supported
- Fixed exception when calling fail2ban-server with unknown
option
- Fixed Debian bug 400162. The "socket" option is now handled
correctly by fail2ban-client
- Added "<HOST>" tag support in failregex which matches default IP
address/hostname. "(?P<host>\S)" is still valid and supported
- Fixed exception when calling fail2ban-server with unknown option
- Fixed Debian bug 400162. The "socket" option is now handled correctly by
fail2ban-client
- Fixed RedHat init script. Thanks to Justin Shore
- Changed timeout to 30 secondes before assuming the server
cannot be started. Thanks to Joël Bertrand
- Changed timeout to 30 secondes before assuming the server cannot be started.
Thanks to Joël Bertrand
ver. 0.7.4 (2006/11/01) - beta
----------
- Improved configuration files. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added man page for "fail2ban-regex"
- Moved ban/unban messages from "info" level to "warn"
- Added "-s" option to specify the socket path and "socket"
option in "fail2ban.conf"
- Added "-s" option to specify the socket path and "socket" option in
"fail2ban.conf"
- Added "backend" option in "jail.conf"
- Added more filters/actions and jail samples. Thanks to Nick
Munger, Christoph Haas
- Added more filters/actions and jail samples. Thanks to Nick Munger, Christoph
Haas
- Improved testing framework
- Fixed a bug in the return code handling of the executed
commands. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Signal handling. There is a bug with join() and signal in
Python
- Fixed a bug in the return code handling of the executed commands. Thanks to
Yaroslav Halchenko
- Signal handling. There is a bug with join() and signal in Python
- Better debugging output for "fail2ban-regex"
- Added support for more date format
- cPickle does not work with Python 2.5. Use pickle instead
(performance is not a problem in our case)
- cPickle does not work with Python 2.5. Use pickle instead (performance is not
a problem in our case)
ver. 0.7.3 (2006/09/28) - beta
----------
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- Improved client output
- Added more get/set commands
- Added more configuration templates
- Removed "logpath" and "maxretry" from filter templates.
They must be defined in jail.conf now
- Removed "logpath" and "maxretry" from filter templates. They must be defined
in jail.conf now
- Added interactive mode. Use "-i"
- Added a date detector. "timeregex" and "timepattern" are no
more needed
- Added "fail2ban-regex". This is a tool to help finding
"failregex"
- Improved server communication. Start a new thread for each
incoming request. Fail2ban is not really thread-safe yet
- Added a date detector. "timeregex" and "timepattern" are no more needed
- Added "fail2ban-regex". This is a tool to help finding "failregex"
- Improved server communication. Start a new thread for each incoming request.
Fail2ban is not really thread-safe yet
ver. 0.7.1 (2006/08/23) - alpha
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ver. 0.7.0 (2006/08/23) - alpha
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- Almost a complete rewrite :) Fail2ban design is really
better (IMHO). There is a lot of new features
- Almost a complete rewrite :) Fail2ban design is really better (IMHO). There is
a lot of new features
- Client/Server architecture
- Multithreading. Each jail has its own threads: one for the
log reading and another for the actions
- Multithreading. Each jail has its own threads: one for the log reading and
another for the actions
- Execute several actions
- Split configuration files. They are more readable and easy
to use
- failregex uses group (<host>) now. This feature was already
present in the Debian package
- Split configuration files. They are more readable and easy to use
- failregex uses group (<host>) now. This feature was already present in the
Debian package
- lots of things...
ver. 0.6.1 (2006/03/16) - stable
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- Added permanent banning. Set banTime to a negative value to
enable this feature (-1 is perfect). Thanks to Mannone
- Added permanent banning. Set banTime to a negative value to enable this
feature (-1 is perfect). Thanks to Mannone
- Fixed locale bug. Thanks to Fernando José
- Fixed crash when time format does not match data
- Propagated patch from Debian to fix fail2ban search path
addition to the path search list: now it is added first.
Thanks to Nick Craig-Wood
- Added SMTP authentification for mail notification. Thanks
to Markus Hoffmann
- Propagated patch from Debian to fix fail2ban search path addition to the path
search list: now it is added first. Thanks to Nick Craig-Wood
- Added SMTP authentification for mail notification. Thanks to Markus Hoffmann
- Removed debug mode as it is confusing for people
- Added parsing of timestamp in TAI64N format (#1275325).
Thanks to Mark Edgington
- Added patch #1382936 (Default formatted syslog logging).
Thanks to Patrick B<EFBFBD>rjesson
- Removed 192.168.0.0/16 from ignoreip. Attacks could also
come from the local network.
- Robust startup: if iptables module does not get fully
initialized after startup of fail2ban, fail2ban will do
"maxreinit" attempts to initialize its own firewall. It
will sleep between attempts for "polltime" number of
seconds (closes Debian: #334272). Thanks to Yaroslav
Halchenko
- Added "interpolations" in fail2ban.conf. This is provided
by the ConfigParser module. Old configuration files still
work. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added initial support for hosts.deny and shorewall. Need
more testing. Please test. Thanks to kojiro from Gentoo
forum for hosts.deny support
- Added parsing of timestamp in TAI64N format (#1275325). Thanks to Mark
Edgington
- Added patch #1382936 (Default formatted syslog logging). Thanks to Patrick
B<EFBFBD>rjesson
- Removed 192.168.0.0/16 from ignoreip. Attacks could also come from the local
network.
- Robust startup: if iptables module does not get fully initialized after
startup of fail2ban, fail2ban will do "maxreinit" attempts to initialize its
own firewall. It will sleep between attempts for "polltime" number of seconds
(closes Debian: #334272). Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added "interpolations" in fail2ban.conf. This is provided by the ConfigParser
module. Old configuration files still work. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added initial support for hosts.deny and shorewall. Need more testing. Please
test. Thanks to kojiro from Gentoo forum for hosts.deny support
- Added support for vsftpd. Thanks to zugeschmiert
ver. 0.6.0 (2005/11/20) - stable
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- Propagated patches introduced by Debian maintainer
(Yaroslav Halchenko):
* Added an option to report local time (including timezone)
or GMT in mail notification.
- Propagated patches introduced by Debian maintainer (Yaroslav Halchenko):
* Added an option to report local time (including timezone) or GMT in mail
notification.
ver. 0.5.5 (2005/10/26) - beta
----------
- Propagated patches introduced by Debian maintainer
(Yaroslav Halchenko):
* Introduced fwcheck option to verify consistency of the
chains. Implemented automatic restart of fail2ban main
function in case check of fwban or fwunban command failed
(closes: #329163, #331695). (Introduced patch was further
adjusted by upstream author).
- Propagated patches introduced by Debian maintainer (Yaroslav Halchenko):
* Introduced fwcheck option to verify consistency of the chains. Implemented
automatic restart of fail2ban main function in case check of fwban or
fwunban command failed (closes: #329163, #331695). (Introduced patch was
further adjusted by upstream author).
* Added -f command line parameter for [findtime].
* Added a cleanup of firewall rules on emergency shutdown
when unknown exception is catched.
* Fail2ban should not crash now if a wrong file name is
specified in config.
* reordered code a bit so that log targets are setup right
after background and then only loglevel (verbose, debug)
is processed, so the warning could be seen in the logs
* Added a keyword <section> in parsing of the subject and
the body of an email sent out by fail2ban (closes:
#330311)
* Added a cleanup of firewall rules on emergency shutdown when unknown
exception is catched.
* Fail2ban should not crash now if a wrong file name is specified in config.
* reordered code a bit so that log targets are setup right after background
and then only loglevel (verbose, debug) is processed, so the warning could
be seen in the logs
* Added a keyword <section> in parsing of the subject and the body of an email
sent out by fail2ban (closes: #330311)
ver. 0.5.4 (2005/09/13) - beta
----------
- Fixed bug #1286222.
- Propagated patches introduced by Debian maintainer
(Yaroslav Halchenko):
* Fixed handling of SYSLOG logging target. Now it can log
to any SYSLOG target and facility as directed by the
config
- Propagated patches introduced by Debian maintainer (Yaroslav Halchenko):
* Fixed handling of SYSLOG logging target. Now it can log to any SYSLOG target
and facility as directed by the config
* Format of SYSLOG entries fixed to look closer to standard
* Fixed errata in config/gentoo-confd
* Introduced findtime configuration variable to control the
lifetime of caught "failed" log entries
* Introduced findtime configuration variable to control the lifetime of caught
"failed" log entries
ver. 0.5.3 (2005/09/08) - beta
----------
- Fixed a bug when overriding "maxfailures" or "bantime".
Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added more debug output if an error occurs when sending
mail. Thanks to Stephen Gildea
- Renamed "maxretry" to "maxfailures" and changed default
value to 5. Thanks to Stephen Gildea
- Fixed a bug when overriding "maxfailures" or "bantime". Thanks to Yaroslav
Halchenko
- Added more debug output if an error occurs when sending mail. Thanks to
Stephen Gildea
- Renamed "maxretry" to "maxfailures" and changed default value to 5. Thanks to
Stephen Gildea
- Hopefully fixed bug #1256075
- Fixed bug #1262345
- Fixed exception handling in PIDLock
- Removed warning when using "-V" or "-h" with no config
file. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Removed "-i eth0" from config file. Thanks to Yaroslav
Halchenko
- Removed warning when using "-V" or "-h" with no config file. Thanks to
Yaroslav Halchenko
- Removed "-i eth0" from config file. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
ver. 0.5.2 (2005/08/06) - beta
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- Fixed bugs #1241756, #1239557
- Added log targets in configuration file. Removed -l option
- Changed iptables rules in order to create a separated chain
for each section
- Changed iptables rules in order to create a separated chain for each section
- Fixed static banList in firewall.py
- Added an initd script for Debian. Thanks to Yaroslav
Halchenko
- Added an initd script for Debian. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Check for obsolete files after install
ver. 0.5.0 (2005/07/12) - beta
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- Added support for CIDR mask in ignoreip
- Added mail notification support
- Fixed bug #1234699
- Added tags replacement in rules definition. Should allow a
clean solution for Feature Request #1229479
- Added tags replacement in rules definition. Should allow a clean solution for
Feature Request #1229479
- Removed "interface" and "firewall" options
- Added start and end commands in the configuration file.
Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Added start and end commands in the configuration file. Thanks to Yaroslav
Halchenko
- Added firewall rules definition in the configuration file
- Cleaned fail2ban.py
- Added an initd script for RedHat/Fedora. Thanks to Andrey
G. Grozin
- Added an initd script for RedHat/Fedora. Thanks to Andrey G. Grozin
ver. 0.4.1 (2005/06/30) - stable
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- Fixed textToDNS method which generated wrong matches for
"rhost=12-xyz...". Thanks to Tom Pike
- Fixed textToDNS method which generated wrong matches for "rhost=12-xyz...".
Thanks to Tom Pike
- fail2ban.conf modified for readability. Thanks to Iain Lea
- Added an initd script for Gentoo
- Changed default PID lock file location from /tmp to
/var/run
- Changed default PID lock file location from /tmp to /var/run
ver. 0.4.0 (2005/04/24) - stable
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ver. 0.3.0 (2005/02/24) - beta
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- Re-writting of parts of the code in order to handle several
log files with different rules
- Re-writting of parts of the code in order to handle several log files with
different rules
- Removed sshd.py because it is no more needed
- Fixed a bug when exiting with IP in the ban list
- Added PID lock file
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ver. 0.1.2 (2004/11/21) - beta
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- Add ipfw and ipfwadm support. The rules are taken from
BlockIt. Thanks to Robert Edeker
- Add -e option which allows to set the interface. Thanks to
Robert Edeker who reminded me this
- Add ipfw and ipfwadm support. The rules are taken from BlockIt. Thanks to
Robert Edeker
- Add -e option which allows to set the interface. Thanks to Robert Edeker who
reminded me this
- Small code cleaning
ver. 0.1.1 (2004/10/23) - beta
----------
- Add SIGTERM handler in order to exit nicely when in daemon
mode
- Add -r option which allows to set the maximum number of
login failures
- Remove the Metalog class as the log file are not so syslog
daemon specific
- Rewrite log reader to be service centered. Sshd support
added. Match "Failed password" and "Illegal user"
- Add SIGTERM handler in order to exit nicely when in daemon mode
- Add -r option which allows to set the maximum number of login failures
- Remove the Metalog class as the log file are not so syslog daemon specific
- Rewrite log reader to be service centered. Sshd support added. Match "Failed
password" and "Illegal user"
- Add /etc/fail2ban.conf configuration support
- Code documentation
ver. 0.1.0 (2004/10/12) - alpha
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- Initial release

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Fail2Ban (version 0.8.4) 2008/??/??
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Fail2Ban (version 0.8.4) 2009/??/??
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Fail2Ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail and bans IP
that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall
rules to reject the IP address. These rules can be defined by
the user. Fail2Ban can read multiple log files such as sshd
or Apache web server ones.
Fail2Ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail and bans IP that makes too many
password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address. These
rules can be defined by the user. Fail2Ban can read multiple log files such as
sshd or Apache web server ones.
This README is a quick introduction to Fail2ban. More
documentation, FAQ, HOWTOs are available on the project
website: http://www.fail2ban.org
This README is a quick introduction to Fail2ban. More documentation, FAQ, HOWTOs
are available on the project website: http://www.fail2ban.org
Installation:
-------------
@ -32,33 +30,32 @@ To install, just do:
> cd fail2ban-0.8.4
> python setup.py install
This will install Fail2Ban into /usr/share/fail2ban. The
executable scripts are placed into /usr/bin.
This will install Fail2Ban into /usr/share/fail2ban. The executable scripts are
placed into /usr/bin.
It is possible that Fail2ban is already packaged for your
distribution. In this case, you should use it.
It is possible that Fail2ban is already packaged for your distribution. In this
case, you should use it.
Fail2Ban should be correctly installed now. Just type:
> fail2ban-client -h
to see if everything is alright. You should always use
fail2ban-client and never call fail2ban-server directly.
to see if everything is alright. You should always use fail2ban-client and never
call fail2ban-server directly.
Configuration:
--------------
You can configure Fail2ban using the files in /etc/fail2ban.
It is possible to configure the server using commands sent to
it by fail2ban-client. The available commands are described
in the man page of fail2ban-client. Please refer to it or to
the website: http://www.fail2ban.org
You can configure Fail2ban using the files in /etc/fail2ban. It is possible to
configure the server using commands sent to it by fail2ban-client. The available
commands are described in the man page of fail2ban-client. Please refer to it or
to the website: http://www.fail2ban.org
Contact:
--------
You need some new features, you found bugs or you just
appreciate this program, you can contact me at:
You need some new features, you found bugs or you just appreciate this program,
you can contact me at:
Website: http://www.fail2ban.org
@ -67,34 +64,27 @@ Cyril Jaquier: <cyril.jaquier@fail2ban.org>
Thanks:
-------
Kévin Drapel, Marvin Rouge, Sireyessire, Robert Edeker,
Tom Pike, Iain Lea, Andrey G. Grozin, Yaroslav Halchenko,
Jonathan Kamens, Stephen Gildea, Markus Hoffmann, Mark
Edgington, Patrick Börjesson, kojiro, zugeschmiert, Tyler,
Nick Munger, Christoph Haas, Justin Shore, Joël Bertrand,
René Berber, mEDI, Axel Thimm, Eric Gerbier, Christian Rauch,
Michael C. Haller, Jonathan Underwood, Hanno 'Rince' Wagner,
Daniel B. Cid, David Nutter, Raphaël Marichez, Guillaume
Delvit, Vaclav Misek, Adrien Clerc, Michael Hanselmann,
Vincent Deffontaines, Bill Heaton, Russell Odom and many
others.
Kévin Drapel, Marvin Rouge, Sireyessire, Robert Edeker, Tom Pike, Iain Lea,
Andrey G. Grozin, Yaroslav Halchenko, Jonathan Kamens, Stephen Gildea, Markus
Hoffmann, Mark Edgington, Patrick Börjesson, kojiro, zugeschmiert, Tyler, Nick
Munger, Christoph Haas, Justin Shore, Joël Bertrand, René Berber, mEDI, Axel
Thimm, Eric Gerbier, Christian Rauch, Michael C. Haller, Jonathan Underwood,
Hanno 'Rince' Wagner, Daniel B. Cid, David Nutter, Raphaël Marichez, Guillaume
Delvit, Vaclav Misek, Adrien Clerc, Michael Hanselmann, Vincent Deffontaines,
Bill Heaton, Russell Odom, Christos Psonis and many others.
License:
--------
Fail2Ban is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
Fail2Ban is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
Fail2Ban is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
details.
Fail2Ban is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with Fail2Ban; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
Fail2Ban; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place,
Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

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ToDo $Revision$
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ToDo $Revision$
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Legend:
- not yet done
@ -15,26 +15,24 @@ Legend:
- Removed relative imports
- Cleanup fail2ban-client and fail2ban-server. Move code to
server/ and client/
- Cleanup fail2ban-client and fail2ban-server. Move code to server/ and client/
- Add timeout to external commands (signal alarm, watchdog
thread, etc)
- Add timeout to external commands (signal alarm, watchdog thread, etc)
- New backend: pyinotify
- Uniformize filters and actions name. Use the software name
(openssh, postfix, proftp)
- Uniformize filters and actions name. Use the software name (openssh, postfix,
proftp)
- Added <USER> tag for failregex. Add features using this
information. Maybe add more tags
- Added <USER> tag for failregex. Add features using this information. Maybe add
more tags
- Look at the memory consumption. Decrease memory usage
- More detailed statistics
- Auto-enable function (search for log files), check
modification date to see if service is still in use
- Auto-enable function (search for log files), check modification date to see if
service is still in use
- Improve parsing of the action parameters in jailreader.py
@ -44,8 +42,8 @@ Legend:
- Multiline log reading
- Improve execution of action. Why does subprocess.call
deadlock with multi-jails?
- Improve execution of action. Why does subprocess.call deadlock with
multi-jails?
# see Feature Request Tracking System at SourceForge.net

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