Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / firewalld/systemd and fail2ban

just before Fedora 24 I wanted to check out Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and the Gnome flavor.. basically same as last time it feels like 3 years in the past from fedora.
anyway, SystemD is now default and let’s see if I can get it to work as before

One Bummer: Fail2Ban doesn’t work with default settings!
it says in the log that it blocked but I could still connect…

solution: (in jail.local)
backend = systemd

this re-enables the functionality and I verified it works!

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