The IP 144.0.0.47 has just been banned by Fail2Ban after 18 attempts against SSH. Latest lines containing IP:144.0.0.47 in /var/log/syslog/sshd.log Sep 7 22:57:20 ftlogin1 sshd[10992]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from 144.0.0.47 Sep 7 22:57:20 ftlogin1 sshd[10993]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from 144.0.0.47 Sep 7 22:57:20 ftlogin1 sshd[10992]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 144.0.0.47 port 12975 ssh2 Sep 7 22:57:20 ftlogin1 sshd[10993]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 144.0.0.47 port 12979 ssh2 Sep 7 22:57:20 ftlogin1 sshd[10987]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from 144.0.0.47 Sep 7 22:57:20 ftlogin1 sshd[10987]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 144.0.0.47 port 12976 ssh2 Sep 7 22:57:20 ftlogin1 sshd[10989]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from 144.0.0.47 Sep 7 22:57:20 ftlogin1 sshd[10989]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 144.0.0.47 port 12978 ssh2 Sep 7 22:57:20 ftlogin1 sshd[10986]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from 144.0.0.47 Sep 7 22:57:20 ftlogin1 sshd[10986]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 144.0.0.47 port 12977 ssh2 - Fail2ban on