denyhosts keeps adding back my IP

Question

I am trying to unblock an IP from which I was doing some tests. I have followed the tutorials on the net:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/denyhosts stop
$ sudo vim /etc/deny.         


        

Answer 1

Here's what worked for me on CentOS 6.7

1. Stop DenyHosts (ver 2.6) ./daemon-control stop
2. Remove line/s with your/target IP address from /etc/hosts.deny
3. Remove line/s with your/target IP address from /usr/share/denyhosts/data/hosts
4. Remove line/s with your/target IP address from /usr/share/denyhosts/data/hosts-restricted
5. Remove line/s with your/target IP address from /usr/share/denyhosts/data/hosts-root
6. Remove line/s with your/target IP address from /usr/share/denyhosts/data/hosts-valid
7. Remove line/s with your/target IP address from /usr/share/denyhosts/data/users-hosts
8. ADD your/target IP address to /usr/share/denyhosts/data/allowed-hosts. This file simply expects one IP per line. Any IP address that appears in this file will not be blocked.
9. Start DenyHosts ./daemon-control start