Re: [Fail2ban-users] How to use fail2ban with ssmtp and send reports to contacts in whois of banned ip and/or a blacklist?

[Fabian W. <fa...@we...>]

Hello Peter

On 04.03.14 03:34, Peter Littmann wrote:
> So far I edited my hosts.allow and hosts.deny and let it mail via ssmtp to my
> mail account when there is a attempt to connect to sshd.
> Then I forward this to the contact address given in the whois entry of this ip
> by hand.
> Could this be made automatically and how to do it?

Check out the complain action, but read the warning in the .conf 
file. I do not use this action myself, I just use fail2ban to 
feed my host firewall to block abusive IP addresses for a few hours.


bye
Fabian