denyhosts keeps adding back my IP

Question

I am trying to unblock an IP from which I was doing some tests. I have followed the tutorials on the net:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/denyhosts stop
$ sudo vim /etc/deny.         


        

Answer 1

If instructions above didn't help maybe denyhosts added IP to iptables firewall.

iptables -L -n -v | grep xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

If you see something like that:

0 0 DROP all -- * * xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 0.0.0.0/0

Remove required IP from firewall:

iptables -D INPUT -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -j DROP

And restart networking to apply changes:

/etc/init.d/networking restart