diff --git a/fail2ban/server/filter.py b/fail2ban/server/filter.py
index 1fe70564..b4347edd 100644
--- a/fail2ban/server/filter.py
+++ b/fail2ban/server/filter.py
@@ -848,10 +848,10 @@ class JournalFilter(Filter): # pragma: systemd no cover
 		return []
 
 ##
-# Utils class for DNS and IP handling.
+# Utils class for DNS handling.
+#
+# This class contains only static methods used to handle DNS 
 #
-# This class contains only static methods used to handle DNS and IP
-# addresses.
 
 import socket
 import struct
@@ -859,8 +859,6 @@ import struct
 
 class DNSUtils:
 
-	IP_CRE = re.compile("^(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}$")
-
 	@staticmethod
 	def dnsToIp(dns):
 		""" Convert a DNS into an IP address using the Python socket module.
@@ -888,28 +886,6 @@ class DNSUtils:
 			logSys.debug("Unable to find a name for the IP %s: %s" % (ip, e))
 			return None
 
-	@staticmethod
-	def searchIP(text):
-		""" Search if an IP address if directly available and return
-			it.
-		"""
-		match = DNSUtils.IP_CRE.match(text)
-		if match:
-			return match
-		else:
-			return None
-
-	@staticmethod
-	def isValidIP(string):
-		""" Return true if str is a valid IP
-		"""
-		s = string.split('/', 1)
-		try:
-			socket.inet_aton(s[0])
-			return True
-		except socket.error:
-			return False
-
 	@staticmethod
 	def textToIp(text, useDns):
 		""" Return the IP of DNS found in a given text.
@@ -933,25 +909,6 @@ class DNSUtils:
 
 		return ipList
 
-	@staticmethod
-	def addr2bin(ipstring, cidr=None):
-		""" Convert a string IPv4 address into binary form.
-		If cidr is supplied, return the network address for the given block
-		"""
-		if cidr is None:
-			return struct.unpack("!L", socket.inet_aton(ipstring))[0]
-		else:
-			MASK = 0xFFFFFFFFL
-			return ~(MASK >> cidr) & MASK & DNSUtils.addr2bin(ipstring)
-
-	@staticmethod
-	def bin2addr(ipbin):
-		""" Convert a binary IPv4 address into string n.n.n.n form.
-		"""
-		return socket.inet_ntoa(struct.pack("!L", ipbin))
-
-
-
 ##
 # Class for IP address handling.
 #