fail2ban/fail2ban — pull request #716 by sebres (2014-05-05 13:24:08+00:00)
Title: Ban time incr

New feature "automatically exponential increasing ban time".
WARNING: by first start the server upgrades sqlite database (table "bans" will recreated with another schema);
Option "bantimeextra.enabled" in jail.conf allows to use database for searching of previously banned ip's to increase a default ban time using special formula, by default each next ban increase banTime * 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32...
see "jail.conf" for some other options of "bantimeextra";
additional we can configure a little randomization of ban time, to prevent "clever" botnets calculate exact time IP can be unbanned.