Bug 1047040

Summary:	Add IPv6 Support to fail2ban
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Mike Bretz <mike>
Component:	fail2ban	Assignee:	Orion Poplawski <orion>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	el6	CC:	admiller, orion, rhbugs, vonsch
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/pull/469
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Description Mike Bretz 2013-12-28 17:06:35 UTC

Description of problem:

An increasing number of large providers (at least in germany) are assigning IPv6 addresses to newly assigned hosts. That's why fail2ban should get IPv6 Support as well, so tracking & banning will work with v6 addresses too.

Actual results:
  No IPv6 support, a possible hack attempt from ipv6 addresses will be unnoticed by fail2ban. (as of 0.8.11-2.el6)

Expected results:
  IPv6 support is available and working.

Additional info:

Please see for a possible patch at http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Fail2ban:Community_Portal#IPv6_Experimental_support
Even if marked as "experimental" it is working well, and solution is "easy" to migrate into package.

This might (partly) be related, but unmodified since 2012-03  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800694