You followed the S200 steps for an S200 (or Debian) or for SME server?
Running SME here..
I installed fail2ban according to contrib
http://wiki.contribs.org/Fail2banthen using
http://www.sailpbx.com/mediawiki/index.php/SARK_V4.0.0_Fail2bancustomised for asterisk.
I think I have nailed it now.. (not sure really) but messages have changed to
[2013-11-02 17:18:08] NOTICE[5221] chan_sip.c: Sending fake auth rejection for device 9999<sip:9999@xx.xxx.xx.xx>;tag=abc39781
The trick (I think was in the /etc/asterisk/logger.conf as per the
http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/AsteriskFirst the security log needs to be enabled in /etc/asterisk/logger.conf:
messages => security, notice,warning,error
"security" was not set.. so I updated that and then did
asterisk -rx "logger reload"
to restart the Asterisk logger module.
So at least the messages changed, which gives me an idea that fail2ban changes did something.
I also note in the /var/log/fail2ban/daemon.log it now states..
2013-11-02 15:34:00,716 fail2ban.actions: INFO [asterisk-iptables] 198.7.59.96 already banned
the ip address being who was previously attacking my server.
So is fail2ban now doing what is is meant to ?
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