Prevent yourself from being banned by Fail2Ban

Added on Sep 13th, 2012 and marked as fail2ban security server

To prevent yourself from being banned by fail2ban, you can add a list of safe IP-addresses to the jail config file.

nano /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf

Add the following lines to the [DEFAULT] section:

[DEFAULT]

# "ignoreip" can be an IP address, a CIDR mask or a DNS host
ignoreip = 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.99