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How to remove your IP from blacklisted in Directadmin

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The DirectAdmin control comes with the Brute Force Attack Monitor where it will block the attacker IP to accessing the control panel at port 2222.

If there’s a lot of failure login to access the control panel, the user IP will be blacklisted as well and it will released after certain time (depend on your configuration in the directadmin control panel).

In case, you like to remove the IP from blacklist immediately, you will need to

Step 1 : SSH to the server

Step 2 : Edit the file

vi /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/ip_blacklist

save it and restart the DirectAdmin service

/etc/init.d/directadmin restart