Introducing fail2ban-zmq-tools: a fail2ban clustering solution based on zeromq

So, you might recall this article of mine:

“Proactive Protection Enhancements for fail2ban, part 1”

From June 2011. Ouch.

Anyway, as I have always wanted to cluster up all my fail2ban servers, especially without opening security holes between them, I cooked up these set of scripts that use the AWESOME zeromq messaging API: www.zeromq.org

I called them fail2ban-zmq-tools, also known as fail2ban-cluster. It consists of a Publisher, which receives messages from Monitor instances and broadcasts them to Subscriber instances.

You can clone up the repository by checking out this github web repos: https://github.com/buanzo/fail2ban-zmq-tools

ENJOY!