Today I had this problem where Fail2ban was keeping on blacklisting an IP address, even though it was in the ignoreip list in /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf.  After double-checking everything on the server, and googling desperately, I found out that up to version 0.8.2, Fail2ban had a bug which caused only the first IP in the ignoreip list to take effect.  And guess what?  Ubuntu versions before gutsy have older versions of Fail2ban.  After a bit of digging, I found out the patch which had