I love learning new stuff

Really! Learning new stuff is always good to improve yourself, even when it’s something so boring as accounting (well, this one I need to help myself believe it).

This is definitely not news for many people, but I always wondered how failban was blocking an ip.ad.dre.ss when I couldn’t find any of the banned IPs with iptables-save | grep ip.ad.dre.ss

I always left it for another time and boy did it pass long and quickly, with other things more important.

But no more! This past weekend I finally learned how fail2ban manages IP block lists with Firewalld: it uses ipset and then creates iptables multiport matches on that defined ipset!

Boy, was I happy… May come in useful in the future, and in the past it was definitely very useful at times, rather than other workarounds.

Still… nice. I must thrive to make time to learn new stuff at least every weekend.

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