This is not the only way to unban a jailed ip.

diff --git a/.bash_function b/.bash_function
index a32bfe8..acfa716 100644 (file)
--- a/.bash_function
+++ b/.bash_function
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 # my weird function file
 # lots of this coming from http://www.kfirlavi.com/blog/2012/11/14/defensive-bash-programming
 
+my_fail2ban_unban_ip(){
+    local ip=$1
+    sudo iptables -D fail2ban-ssh -s $ip -j DROP
+}
+
 my_bak() { cp "$1" "$1_`date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S`" ; }
 
 my_whois_onport(){