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How to Remove Banned IP From Fail2ban on CentOS

Fail2ban is an intrusion prevention software, framework which protect server against brute force attacks. It’s Written in Python programming language. Fail2ban work based on auth log files, by default it will scan the auth log files such as /var/log/auth.log, /var/log/apache/access.log, etc.. and bans IPs that show the malicious signs, too many password failures, seeking for exploits, etc.

Generally fail2Ban is used to update firewall rules to reject the IP addresses for a specified amount of time. Also it will send mail notification too. Fail2Ban comes with many filters for various services such as ssh, apache, nginx, squid, named, mysql, nagios, etc,. Fail2Ban is able to reduce the rate of incorrect authentications attempts however it cannot eliminate the risk that weak authentication presents. this is one of the security for server which will prevent brute force attacks.

If you already installed and used fail2ban to protect your web server, you may be wondering how to find the IP banned or blocked by Fail2ban, or you may want to remove banned ip from fail2ban jail on CentOS 6, CentOS 7, RHEL 6, RHEL 7 and Oracle Linux 6/7.

In this article I will show how to remove banned IP from Fail2Ban on CentOS.

List of Banned IP Address

Run the below command to list all the banned IP address.

# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
f2b-AccessForbidden  tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:http
f2b-WPLogin  tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:http
f2b-ConnLimit  tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:http
f2b-ReqLimit  tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:http
f2b-NoAuthFailures  tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:http
f2b-SSH    tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:ssh
f2b-php-url-open  tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:http
f2b-nginx-http-auth  tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            multiport dports http,https
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:EtherNet/IP-1
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:http
REJECT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
REJECT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination


Chain f2b-NoAuthFailures (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
REJECT     all  --  64.68.50.128         anywhere            reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
REJECT     all  --  104.194.26.205       anywhere            reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
RETURN     all  --  anywhere             anywhere

Remove Banned IP From Fail2Ban

Now run the below command to remove the IP from the banned list. For example I would like to remove “192.168.0.5” IP from the banned list.

# iptables -D f2b-NoAuthFailures -s 192.168.0.5 -j REJECT
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