{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/832","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/832/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/832/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/832/events","html_url":"https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/832","id":46811080,"number":832,"title":"Preventing very high email traffic by many bans (ex. DDoS attack)","user":{"login":"szepeviktor","id":952007,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/952007?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/szepeviktor","html_url":"https://github.com/szepeviktor","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/szepeviktor/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/szepeviktor/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/szepeviktor/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/szepeviktor/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/szepeviktor/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/szepeviktor/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/szepeviktor/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/szepeviktor/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/szepeviktor/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":26,"created_at":"2014-10-25T12:48:27Z","updated_at":"2015-01-30T18:08:59Z","closed_at":null,"body":"It would be nice to my server to detect ongoing DDoS and stop sending notification emails but a last special one saying **Silencing further notifications**.\r\n\r\nWhat is the way of detecting a DDoS?\r\n\r\nSample attack: ![DDoS](http://i.snag.gy/dB2VD.jpg)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/comments/72243918","html_url":"https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/832#issuecomment-72243918","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/832","id":72243918,"user":{"login":"leeclemens","id":1250267,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1250267?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/leeclemens","html_url":"https://github.com/leeclemens","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leeclemens/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leeclemens/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leeclemens/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leeclemens/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leeclemens/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leeclemens/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leeclemens/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leeclemens/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/leeclemens/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-01-30T18:08:59Z","updated_at":"2015-01-30T18:08:59Z","body":"Sorry if I had misunderstood what you were referring to as the \"DDoS\". I don't think a lot of apache-noscript attempts make up a DDoS, but it's not useful to split hairs regarding this.\r\n\r\nI think a general breakdown of what this Issue is about doesn't need to consider \"DDoS\", as it isn't really related.\r\n\r\nGiven:\r\nA jail is configured to send email notifications per ban\r\nLots of hosts are banned -> Lots of emails are generated\r\n\r\nFeature Request:\r\nDigest/rate limit email notifications (per jail, preferably)\r\n\r\nQuestion:\r\nWhat do you mean by \"No new information can be found in the emails\" ?"}}