Re: [SSHGuard-users] Blacklisting

[Kevin Z. <kev...@gm...>]

On 8/17/18 9:50 AM, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
> Can you tell me if the blacklist.db is for ip's that are banned forever
> or is it also used for certain amount of time (180, 360, 720 secs)after
> an ip is removed again from it?

Everything that goes into blacklist.db is banned permanently; the block
does not expire and is reloaded once SSHGuard restarts.

There are plans to persist regular blocks across restarts and make
blacklists a very, very long persistent ban.

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Kevin Zheng
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