IP repeatedly getting blocked

fxmonk · December 20, 2025, 8:37pm

Soon after I clear banned IP list a few hours later my IP goes back to the banned list so I am always blocked from all websites hosted by hestia. Anyway to stop this from happening?

sahsanu · December 20, 2025, 9:35pm

You should figure out why fail2ban is repeatedly triggering a firewall rule to block your ip.

For now, you could add your ip to the whitelist in /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/whitelist.local so fail2ban will ignore it.

❯ cat /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/whitelist.local
[DEFAULT]
ignoreip = here.your.ip

Restart Fail2Ban to apply the change.

systemctl restart fail2ban

fxmonk · January 4, 2026, 12:50pm

whitelist.local is not in my jail.d folder it is empty

sahsanu · January 4, 2026, 1:40pm

You must create it and add the content.

fxmonk · January 6, 2026, 3:17pm

OK and what if I want to add an IP range like for example all IPs on 204.152.xxx.xxx

sahsanu · January 6, 2026, 3:20pm

[DEFAULT]
ignoreip = 204.152.0.0/16

fxmonk · January 6, 2026, 3:30pm

OK done. Now I will monitor to see if it works. Much thanks for your help.

fxmonk · January 10, 2026, 2:32pm

Didn’t work. My IP is back in the banned list

sahsanu · January 10, 2026, 2:36pm

Show the output of:

cat /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/whitelist.local

Did you restart fail2ban?

fxmonk · January 14, 2026, 1:37pm

Screenshot by Lightshot I am unable to do so. This remains off even when I restart

sahsanu · January 14, 2026, 2:25pm

Show the output of these commands:

cat -A /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/whitelist.local
systemctl status fail2ban --no-pager -l