No, it's allowed-hosts.  DH does NOT ever create this file.  It's a 
user-created (and optional) file.  If you don't want DH to ever block your 
hosts, make sure that they are in there.  It's a simple text file, refer 
to FAQ:

http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/faq.html#allowed

Regards,

Phil

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Marconi wrote:

> At 11:55 AM -0700 8/19/07, Phil Schwartz sent email regarding Re:
> [Denyhosts-user] My Own IP is Added:
>> Try:
>>
>> stop DH
>>
>> remove your IP from all WORK_DIR files (except allowed_hosts)
>
> By WORK_DIR, I assume you mean: denyhosts/data/
>
>> add your IP to WORK_DIR/allowed_hosts
>
>
> I don't have that file. I have:
> hosts
> hosts-restricted
> hosts-root
> hosts-valid
> offset
> purge-history
> suspicious-logins
> sync-received
> sync-timestamp
> users-hosts
> users-invalid
> users-valid
>
> Might you mean hosts-valid?
>
>>
>> start DH
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phil
>>
>> On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Marconi wrote:
>>
>>> OK, I keep getting my own IP banned. Here's my setup and how I got banned:
>>>
>>> My server is behind a NAT router with a private IP. That NAT router
>>> also works for my LAN, including my workstation.
>>>
>>> 'root' login is disabled on the server so no one should be logging in
>>> as root. I therefore set:
>>>     DENY_THRESHOLD_ROOT = 1
>>>
>>> In retrospect, this was not a Good Idea.
>>>
>>> The problem arose when I tried to ssh to my server from my
>>> workstation, forgetting that I had su'd to root on my workstation. I
>>> was thus trying to ssh to my server as root and was immediately
>>> banned by DenyHosts.
>>>
>>> So... I deleted my (public) IP from hosts.deby. I deleted any
>>> references to my IP from asl.log (I'm on OS X). I even deleted
>>> references to my IP from the DenyHosts log.
>>>
>>> Still, my IP is being added back in on a regular basis.
>>>
>>> 2007-08-19 08:53:24,502 - denyhosts   : INFO     new denied hosts:
>>> ['24.119.59.5']
>>>
>>> It's as though my IP is cached somewhere. I've quit and restarted
>>> DenyHosts. No help.
>>>
>>> Is that IP being added due to synching?
>>>
>>> How do I fix this?
>
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