Proftpd mod-ban

[wizard69]

I would like to use the module mod_ban with proftpd the module is not included in the ebuild in portage. So i thought i would modify the ebuild to install mod_ban. I copied the proftpd ebuild to my overlay directory and extended it by a few lines to install mod_ban which worked fine. I updated my proftpd.conf according to the mod_ban site but for some reason the module does not ban a user automatically. If i ban a user manually with the commands on the mod_ban site it works. The other thing i noticed is that the command

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 ftpdctl ban info -e
ftpdctl: No bans
ftpdctl:
ftpdctl: No ban events

shows that i have no bans even though i have a ban rule in my proftpd.conf

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<IfModule mod_ban.c>
BanEngine on
BanLog /var/log/proftpd/ban.log
BanTable /var/data/proftpd/ban.tab
#If the same client reaches the MaxLoginAttempts limit 2 times
#within 10 minutes, automatically add a ban for that client that
# will expire after one hour.
BanOnEvent MaxLoginAttempts 2/00:10:00 01:00:00
# Allow the FTP admin to manually add/remove bans
BanControlsACLs all allow user root
</IfModule>

i checked that the module was loaded by proftpd with

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 proftpd --list
Compiled-in modules:
  mod_core.c
  mod_xfer.c
  mod_auth_unix.c
  mod_auth.c
  mod_ls.c
  mod_log.c
  mod_site.c
  mod_delay.c
  mod_ratio.c
  mod_readme.c
  mod_auth_pam.c
  mod_tls.c
  mod_wrap.c
  mod_ban.c
  mod_sql.c
  mod_sql_mysql.c
  mod_quotatab.c
  mod_quotatab_sql.c
  mod_quotatab_file.c
  mod_cap.c
  mod_ctrls.c
  mod_lang.c

does anyone have a clue why this module is not working as expected.