diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b30a5868..aa75ac2e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+fail2ban (0.8.8-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * debian/jail.conf:
+    - added findtime and documentation on those basic options from jail.conf
+
+ -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:51:00 -0500
+
 fail2ban (0.8.8-1+lucid0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * Added lucid-dsc-patch to use pycentral on systems without dh_python2
diff --git a/debian/jail.conf b/debian/jail.conf
index 869677a6..8f58ddea 100644
--- a/debian/jail.conf
+++ b/debian/jail.conf
@@ -15,9 +15,17 @@
 
 [DEFAULT]
 
-# "ignoreip" can be an IP address, a CIDR mask or a DNS host
+# "ignoreip" can be an IP address, a CIDR mask or a DNS host. Fail2ban will not
+# ban a host which matches an address in this list. Several addresses can be
+# defined using space separator.
 ignoreip = 127.0.0.1/8
+
+# "bantime" is the number of seconds that a host is banned.
 bantime  = 600
+
+# A host is banned if it has generated "maxretry" during the last "findtime"
+# seconds.
+findtime = 600
 maxretry = 3
 
 # "backend" specifies the backend used to get files modification.