Fail2Ban

Fail2Ban is an intrusion prevention software framework that protects computer servers from brute-force attacks. Written in the Python programming language, it is able to run on POSIX systems that have an interface to a packet-control system or firewall, for example, iptables or TCP Wrapper.

Software Installation

fail2ban is available as package in the Ubuntu software repository.

Warning

Note that the package installed by the current LTS version of Ubuntu Xenial (16.04) doesn’t support IPv6.

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install fail2ban