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Fail2ban with geoiplookup

EnriqueR

Regular Pleskian
The system fail2ban installed with Plesk is perfect for ban injections, but the stored IP hardly gives any information. Is there a way to activate geoiplookup to display additional information about the banned IP?

It would be great to enable. A perfect tool.
 
Other way: use "sendmail-whois" function, to generate the info in all mails signaling a banned IP.

To do so, first check that the "whois" function is installed on your server.
Then create the following file:
/etc/fail2ban/action.d/sendmail-whois.conf

# Fail2Ban configuration file
#
# Author: Cyril Jaquier
#
#

[INCLUDES]

before = sendmail-common.conf

[Definition]

# Option: actionstart
# Notes.: command executed once at the start of Fail2Ban.
# Values: CMD
#
actionstart = printf %%b "Subject: [Fail2Ban] <name>: started on `uname -n`
Date: `LC_TIME=C date -u +"%%a, %%d %%h %%Y %%T +0000"`
From: <sendername> <<sender>>
To: <dest>\n
Hi,\n
The jail <name> has been started successfully.\n
Regards,\n
Fail2Ban" | /usr/sbin/sendmail -f <sender> <dest>

# Option: actionstop
# Notes.: command executed once at the end of Fail2Ban
# Values: CMD
#
actionstop = printf %%b "Subject: [Fail2Ban] <name>: stopped on `uname -n`
Date: `LC_TIME=C date -u +"%%a, %%d %%h %%Y %%T +0000"`
From: <sendername> <<sender>>
To: <dest>\n
Hi,\n
The jail <name> has been stopped.\n
Regards,\n
Fail2Ban" | /usr/sbin/sendmail -f <sender> <dest>

# Option: actioncheck
# Notes.: command executed once before each actionban command
# Values: CMD
#
actioncheck =

# Option: actionban
# Notes.: command executed when banning an IP. Take care that the
# command is executed with Fail2Ban user rights.
# Tags: See jail.conf(5) man page
# Values: CMD
#
actionban = printf %%b "Subject: [Fail2Ban] <name>: banned <ip> from `uname -n`
Date: `LC_TIME=C date -u +"%%a, %%d %%h %%Y %%T +0000"`
From: <sendername> <<sender>>
To: <dest>\n
Hi,\n
The IP <ip> has just been banned by Fail2Ban after
<failures> attempts against <name>.\n\n
Here are more information about <ip>:\n
`/usr/bin/whois <ip>`\n
Regards,\n
Fail2Ban" | /usr/sbin/sendmail -f <sender> <dest>

# Option: actionunban
# Notes.: command executed when unbanning an IP. Take care that the
# command is executed with Fail2Ban user rights.
# Tags: See jail.conf(5) man page
# Values: CMD
#
actionunban =

[Init]

# Default name of the chain
#
name = default

Finally, in all your jails, replace the "sendmail" command by "sendmail-whois".
 
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