A firewall restart flushes the fail2ban chains. The new handler restarts fail2ban only if it is active; it does nothing if fail2ban is stopped or not installed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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743 B
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30 lines
743 B
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- name: Reload systemd daemon
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systemd:
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daemon_reload: true
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- name: Restart IPv4 Firewall
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service:
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name: ipt-firewall
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state: restarted
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notify: Restart fail2ban if active
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- name: Restart IPv6 Firewall
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service:
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name: ip6t-firewall
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state: restarted
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notify: Restart fail2ban if active
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# A firewall restart flushes the fail2ban chains; restarting fail2ban
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# recreates them and re-applies the active bans. Does nothing if fail2ban
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# is not installed or not running.
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- name: Restart fail2ban if active
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shell: |
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if systemctl is-active --quiet fail2ban ; then
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systemctl restart fail2ban
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echo restarted
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fi
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register: fail2ban_restart
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changed_when: "'restarted' in fail2ban_restart.stdout"
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