# Fail2ban dont work properly **URL:** \ **Category:** Linux on Servers\ **Created:** [September 12, 2024, 11:33am UTC](https://community.learnlinux.tv/t/fail2ban-dont-work-properly/4154 "2024-09-12T11:33:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Havouza15](https://community.learnlinux.tv/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@Havouza15](https://community.learnlinux.tv/u/Havouza15)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 11:33am UTC](https://community.learnlinux.tv/t/fail2ban-dont-work-properly/4154/1 "2024-09-12T11:33:21Z")
I try to get the installed fail2ban to ignore the ip I have from home office. I have read all tutorials and forum posts I can find without luck. What I want to do is to add a ignoreip but I have done as all states but fail2ban still ban the ip address Can I somehow check what ip is ignored/whitelisted Par of fail2ban.local looks like this [Definition] [DEFAULT] ignoreip = 1.2.3.4 What am I missing? manual say that ignoreself is default true # “ignoreself” specifies whether the local resp. own IP addresses should be ignored # (default is true). Fail2ban will not ban a host which matches such addresses. Regards Anders Yuran ---
**Author:** ![ThatGuyB](https://community.learnlinux.tv/user_avatar/community.learnlinux.tv/thatguyb/32/784_2.png) [@ThatGuyB](https://community.learnlinux.tv/u/ThatGuyB)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.learnlinux.tv/t/fail2ban-dont-work-properly/4154/2 "2024-09-12T12:08:52Z")
Have you tried the subnet, instead of the IP, for testing? Have you also tried the public IP? Add ignoreself = true just to be sure as well. ---
**Author:** ![Havouza15](https://community.learnlinux.tv/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@Havouza15](https://community.learnlinux.tv/u/Havouza15)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2024, 11:13am UTC](https://community.learnlinux.tv/t/fail2ban-dont-work-properly/4154/3 "2024-09-14T11:13:41Z")
Thanks for that ignoreself should be default but as soon as I added it, everything works