Fail2ban

In this article, will show how to ban visitors from a specific country using Fail2ban and geoip. It is assumed that Fail2ban is already installed and configured in your server.

Lets install first the geoip:

  
yum install geoip
  

Create Fail2ban action script:

  
vi /etc/fail2ban/action.d/geohostsdeny.conf
  

Copy the following script:

In this article, we will take a look on how to exempt from banning visitors from a specific country using Fail2ban and geoip. It is assumed that Fail2ban is already installed and configured in your server.

Lets install first the geoip:

  
yum install geoip
  

Create Fail2ban action script:

  
vi /etc/fail2ban/action.d/geohostsdeny.conf
  

Copy the following script:

The fail2ban do have comprehensive collection of scripts that scan log files and ban IPs that match malicious activities. But we are going to look on how to use ngx_http_limit_req_module logs to ban IPs that shows sign of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on your website.