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Hey all, i've decided I should probably setup something else to help block nefarious IP addresses. I've been looking into CrowdSec and Fail2Ban but i'm not really sure the best one to use.

My setup is OpnSense -> Nginx Proxy Manager -> Servers. I think I need to setup CrowdSec/Fail2Ban on the Nginx Proxy Manager to filter the access logs, then ideally it would setup the blocks on OpnSense - but i'm not sure that can be done?

Any experience in a setup like this? I've found a few guides but some of them seem fairly outdated.

Edit: thanks everybody for the great info. General consensus seems to be with crowdsec so I'll go down that path and see how it goes.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Care to elaborate? This seems kind of insanely specific.

Also, if you're using fail2ban, the same thing would happen.

[–] Tournesol@feddit.fr 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't have much to elaborate on ^^' but yeah, could have been an hyper specific case but that was my experience with it. I assumed my ip was banned on the crowd or something like that and even if my friend unbanned me twice, the ban came back. Don't know what really happened for sure.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok...but crowdsec bans abusive IPs. Are you saying your actions got you banned for some reason?

Also, whitelist first. Ban second.

[–] Tournesol@feddit.fr 3 points 1 day ago

I truly don't think I did anything to get banned. The only thing "non-standard" I do, is having a seedbox