[omginternets]

I'm rather convinced that people reaching for fail2band actually want rate-limiting.

[ivlad]

Often, they do, however configuring it for different applications may be a bigger effort than doing so via fail2ban with minimal log parser tweaking.

[dizhn]

This is true but on an active server legitimate users getting blocked far exceeds the convince of having cleaner logs in my experience.

(Blocks always have to do with saved passwords being used from a nonwhitelisted IP)