Yet I beg to ask the others who had this issue (OP, etc), why their freepbx distros started doing this, as well.
I have no idea why at this point. I had to whitelist vitelity in fail2ban. I suspected that some hacker was spoofing an ip address to attack my server.
Ah, but your white list is working? Where did you put the whitelist? From within freepbx or in jail.conf? It wasn’t working for me to even use ignoreip=, but since I’ve reinstalled fail2ban from this script: Fail2Ban With Asterisk
So far so good!
Yeah the whitelist is working. I put the address in through the fpbx gui. Not that it helps if it is an attack attempt from a spoofed ip. The system works but maybe a hacker will get in.