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Life & fun · September 16, 2026

Fail2zig. A single-binary fail2ban replacement written in Zig

A fail2ban replacement for Linux. One executable, durable SQLite state and verified firewall enforcement. Inspect supported fail2ban migration before switching.

Fail2zig. A single-binary fail2ban replacement written in Zig launched on September 16, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,243 of 8,095 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Reads your logs, detects repeated failures, and bans offending IPs. A familiar job, with a smaller runtime and explicit resource limits. The same log-to-ban model, with explicit boundaries around the work your server does. One static executable combines the daemon, administration and migration tools. No Python runtime or separate database server is required. Source progress, retry state and protection ownership survive restart in SQLite. Bounded admission retains critical state when resources run short. Built-in filters compile into specialised parsers. A single pass extracts the address, with bounds checks and no allocations in the hot path. Typed intent is persisted before dispatch, then…from fail2zig.com

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