Bug 12076

Summary:	special country codes (A1, A2, EU, AP) in Maxmind DB unusable
Product:	IPFire	Reporter:	Peter Müller <peter.mueller>
Component:	---	Assignee:	Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Peter Müller <peter.mueller>
Severity:	Minor Usability
Priority:	Will affect most users	CC:	horace.michael, ipfire, michael.tremer
Version:	2
Hardware:	all
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11959 https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12054

Description Peter Müller 2019-05-11 10:05:52 UTC

After changing to MaxMinds new GeoIP DB format, the special country codes A1, A2, EU and AP are unusable on both existing and new installed systems.

On existing ones, they silently have no effect any more, on new installed systems, they simply will not show up.

Since some CDN IP space (such as Akamais) is located at "EU", this breaks quite some online services hosted there. Users can only choose between not accessing these servers any more, or disabling GeoIP based firewall rules.

MaxMind still provides information about all of these special country codes - they just changed its format. IMHO our scripts need to be adjusted to make these available again.

Comment 1 Michael Tremer 2019-06-04 11:05:17 UTC

*** Bug 12092 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 ipfire 2019-06-04 12:00:23 UTC

where I can check/ uncheck A1 A2?

In geo IP i have no countries like this or EU

Comment 3 Peter Müller 2019-07-04 17:40:25 UTC

- ping -

Comment 4 Peter Müller 2019-10-13 10:23:58 UTC

As far as I am concerned, there is no update on this.

But since we are making progress on libloc (https://lists.ipfire.org/pipermail/development/2019-October/006420.html), I do not assume there will be a fix before.

Comment 5 Michael Tremer 2020-01-30 10:25:04 UTC

Not sure if anything can be done here. Probs not. Re-open if still valid.