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How to block all root login attempts using denyhosts and or fail2ban?

I currently block all ssh logins using root. But I wanted to go the extra mile and block the ip address of the client who tried to login as root. I currently have denyhosts and fail2ban setup and ...
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fail2ban stops logging in auth.log

I yesterday installed fail2ban on my server and I see I am not getting logs for the genuine people also who log in to my machine.In /var/log/auth.log It is a Ubuntu server and I had installed ...