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If fail2ban locks out an IP address that you want to re enable

First find out what fail2ban jail the ip is in by using the command

iptables -L

and

iptables -D fail2ban-JAILNAME -s xx.xxx.xxx.xxx -j DROP

Where JAILNAME is something like SSH and the IP address is xx.xxx.xxx.xxx