Bug 13804

Summary: Downloading of empty blocklist treated as error but some can be empty for a time
Product: IPFire Reporter: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka>
Component: ---Assignee: Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: Minor Usability    
Priority: - Unknown - CC: michael.tremer
Version: 2   
Hardware: unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   

Description Adolf Belka 2025-01-02 17:37:22 UTC 
Some ipblocklists, such as Feodo Recommended are still updated but not so frequently and so can end up having periods when they are empty.

This empty status flags up as an unexpected error when trying to download the empty list.

The following message is shown in the logs if the list is empty.

Could not update FEODO_RECOMMENDED blocklist - Unexpected error! 

This was discussed in the November 2024 IPFire conf call.

https://www.ipfire.org/docs/devel/telco/2024-11-04#feodo-tracker-ip-block-lists
Comment 1 Michael Tremer 2025-05-12 18:51:46 UTC 
@Stefan: This has been raised again on today's call:

> https://www.ipfire.org/docs/devel/telco/2025-05-12

Will you be able to look at this soon?
Comment 4 Adolf Belka 2025-07-01 11:02:39 UTC 
Tested this out on my vm testbed.

I confirmed with another system that the Feodo list was empty and also by testing download of the list.

I then selected the Feodo list and it was successfully accepted with zero entries.

This verifies that the fix is working.