Bug 12076 - special country codes (A1, A2, EU, AP) in Maxmind DB unusable
Summary: special country codes (A1, A2, EU, AP) in Maxmind DB unusable
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: IPFire
Classification: Unclassified
Component: --- (show other bugs)
Version: 2
Hardware: all All
: Will affect most users Minor Usability
Assignee: Stefan Schantl
QA Contact: Peter Müller
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: 12092 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2019-05-11 10:05 UTC by Peter Müller
Modified: 2020-01-30 10:25 UTC (History)
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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.