Dolphin keeps banning my IP address

I keep getting the following error:

 

The IP 95.55.125.13 has just been banned by Fail2Ban after

15 attempts against apache-auth


Error occurs when I am creating and editing blog posts so is really annoying.

Mod evasive is installed with following settings:


<IfModule mod_evasive20.c>

    DOSHashTableSize    3097

    DOSPageCount        20

    DOSSiteCount        50

    DOSPageInterval     1

    DOSSiteInterval     1

    DOSBlockingPeriod   10

    DOSEmailNotify      me@mydommain.net

    #DOSSystemCommand    "su - someuser -c '/sbin/... %s ...'"

    DOSLogDir           "/var/log/mod_evasive"

 

</IfModule>

 
Also fail2ban jail for apache-auth is set to:
 
[apache-auth]
 
enabled = true
port     = http,https
filter = apache-auth
logpath  = %(apache_error_log)s
maxretry = 6
findtime = 600
 
I am not sure how secure all of this would be if I make the max retrys any higher. There were originally 3 and I would prefer to make them 3 again.
 
So really, what is going on here? Why does dolphin violate these settings and more to the point what can I do to stop the page getting errors due to my ip ban?
 
Many thanks for any advice or guidance. Much appreciated, thanks
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Quote · 26 Jan 2019

Hello hawk007!

 

Dolphin doesn't block any IPs by himself. Possible, you made the wrong setup to Admin panel->Tools->IP blacklist area, see more details here https://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/DolphinAdminIpBlacklist. But form your description it looks like a server limits. Did you ask your hosting support about it?

Quote · 28 Jan 2019

Thanks for the response. Its my own VPS so I have control of the settings. As mentioned, this as prompted em to investigate further though. I may first disable Mod Evasive to see if the: DOSPageCount        20, to see if that is causing the ban.

I was editing yesterday and I didnt actully get banned because I changed the DOSPageCount        20 from 10.

I will leave it a couple of days as I need to add a couple more posts today and if I don't get banned I will presume its the Mod Evasive setting that is somehow causing fail2ban to trigger the ban.


Thanks again for the response. Much appreciated.

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Quote · 28 Jan 2019
 
 
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