Fail2ban and alternatives

[lgaetz (Lorne Gaetz)]

I like APIBAN, and the fail2ban client works pretty smoothly with the FreePBX distro firewall

New APIBAN client for fail2ban

Almost four years since I learned about APIBAN from @apiban and posted how to use it with FreePBX here. Check that thread for background. Yesterday, the project announced a new client that integrates APIBAN with fail2ban, just in time for #FridayFun. Initially I started testing with my home system running the FreePBX 16 Distro. For reasons eplained below, this is less than ideal. Starting with a FreePBX 17 system installed with the official Debian 12 install script, step one is to disable f…