Solving Fail2Ban not banning IPs on Ubuntu 16.04
I recently installed Fail2Ban on my personal mail/web host as the number of "bad actors" has climbed a lot in recent years and I no longer felt comfortable just allowing them to pummel my server. I'm writing up another blog post shortly on everything I did and how it all works; however, I had one issue that kept cropping up: Running fail2ban-client status recidive returned the following: Status for the jail: recidive |- Filter | |- Currently failed: 158 | |- Total failed: 741 | `- File list: /var/log/fail2ban.log `- Actions |- Currently banned: 8 |- Total banned: 8 `- Banned IP list: 185.127.19.155 203.87.129.135 80.82.77.203 94.102....