If there is a serious power failure, eg during an electric storm, and the internet goes down then my CentOS-6.2 server seems to take an inordinate time, maybe forever, to get past fail2ban. It is as though there is an extremely long - maybe an hour - timeout if fail2ban cannot connect to the internet. (I usually stop the machine with the power-button, re-boot into a different OS (Fedora) and chkconfig off fail2ban.) This only occurs once or twice a year, so I don't worry about it much; but I was wondering if there is a timeout that I can change somewhere in the fail2ban setup? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin