Hi everybody!
How many times have you locked yourself out of your remote server by being too quick for your own good? My servers are all set to ban an IP after 3 connection attempts within a minute, so it happens quite regularly that I lock myself out.
The list of banned IPs is stored in /proc/net/ipt_recent. There are a couple of commands this 'file' understands...
To see what IPs are currently banned, use:
cat /proc/net/ipt_recent/BAN_LIST_NAME).
To remove an IP from the list use:
echo "-xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" > /proc/net/ipt_recent/BAN_LIST_NAME
To add a suspicious or known bad IP:
echo "+xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" >; /proc/net/ipt_recent/BAN_LIST_NAME
To remove all entries (not really a very good idea):
echo "clear" > /proc/net/ipt_recent/BAN_LIST_NAME
That's all for now.
n00b