fail2ban-client banip dont work

[Thomas]

when I try to ban a ip with fail2ban-client it dont do anything:

user@admin:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/fail2ban restart
 * Restarting authentication failure monitor fail2ban [ OK ]
user@admin:~$ sudo fail2ban-client status ssh
Status for the jail: ssh
|- filter
| |- File list: /var/log/auth.log
| |- Currently failed: 1
| `- Total failed: 4
`- action
   |- Currently banned: 0
   | `- IP list:
   `- Total banned: 0
user@admin:~$ sudo fail2ban-client set ssh banip 201.193.196.6
201.193.196.6
user@admin:~$ sudo fail2ban-client status ssh
Status for the jail: ssh
|- filter
| |- File list: /var/log/auth.log
| |- Currently failed: 2
| `- Total failed: 5
`- action
   |- Currently banned: 0
   | `- IP list:
   `- Total banned: 0
user@admin:~$ tail /var/log/fail2ban.log
2012-09-23 13:22:53,839 fail2ban.filter : INFO Set findtime = 600
2012-09-23 13:22:53,840 fail2ban.actions: INFO Set banTime = 86400
2012-09-23 13:22:53,860 fail2ban.jail : INFO Creating new jail 'ssh-ddos'
2012-09-23 13:22:53,860 fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail 'ssh-ddos' uses Gamin
2012-09-23 13:22:53,861 fail2ban.filter : INFO Added logfile = /var/log/auth.log
2012-09-23 13:22:53,861 fail2ban.filter : INFO Set maxRetry = 6
2012-09-23 13:22:53,861 fail2ban.filter : INFO Set findtime = 600
2012-09-23 13:22:53,862 fail2ban.actions: INFO Set banTime = 86400
2012-09-23 13:22:53,865 fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail 'ssh' started
2012-09-23 13:22:53,867 fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail 'ssh-ddos' started

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: fail2ban 0.8.6-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Sep 23 13:10:30 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120817.3)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: fail2ban
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.fail2ban.jail.conf: 2012-09-23T12:26:19.777200

[Thomas (t.c)]

Looks like this: https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/45

[Thomas (t.c)]

I backported the current package from Quantal to 12.04 and 10.04
I also added a option which can backup and restore the current state with a fail2ban-helper script

https://launchpad.net/~thomas-creutz/+archive/fail2ban