Flow: Hmmm, I just had a 2nd thought... you mentioned site ban and I thought of ioDELUSER, but you know what, that only takes USERS to ban. If you have a script that allows you to ban based on a IP address then I'm not sure what you are using...
Banning users rejects them after a valid login/pass, banning them via Hosts.Rules doesn't let the server talk to them at all, you get the dropped connection immediately after accepting it. That's the same as you'd get with the Reject_Unknown_Ips option, but since that only grants access it can't ban an IP addresses if it matches a hostmask by any user so that's what Hosts.Rules is for.
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