This patch updates the disclaimer blocks at the beginning of the override-*.txt files, to be more accurate and helpful to people wishing to propose changes to them.

In addition, a remark regarding the A[1-3] country codes has been added.

Signed-off-by: Peter Müller peter.mueller@ipfire.org --- overrides/override-a1.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++---------- overrides/override-a2.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++------ overrides/override-a3.txt | 20 +++++++++++++++----- overrides/override-other.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++++-------- 4 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/overrides/override-a1.txt b/overrides/override-a1.txt index 284c3e8..77d5b08 100644 --- a/overrides/override-a1.txt +++ b/overrides/override-a1.txt @@ -1,19 +1,25 @@ # # override-a1 [.txt] # -# This file contains Autonomous Systems (AS) or IP networks/adresses -# which are - in fact or with a high level of confidence - anonymous -# proxies (special country code: A1). +# This file contains Autonomous Systems and IP networks used - in fact or with reasonable +# confidence - for publicly available services for forwarding traffic anonymously, such as +# VPN providers. # -# Since it does not make sense to assign them to a county, they -# will be flagged as "A1" in the database. +# While their country code set is preserved in libloc - unless utterly bogus -, it does not +# actually make sense to assign these to a distinct country. Therefore, they will be flagged +# as "anonymous proxies" in libloc query results. # -# Although we do not consider them to be bad entirely, they might -# be unwanted in certain scenarios. +# For historical reasons, parts of IPFire's web interface use "A1" as a country code for them. +# This violates ISO 3166, and might be changed to a different country code inside a reserved +# range in the future. # -# Please note only long-living Tor relay providers with static IPs -# are listed here, as the list of all Tor relays will be dynamically -# generated by another script. +# At the moment, major Tor exit relay providers are included here as well. They will be dropped +# from this file in the future, as soon as bug #11754 has been solved and a list of Tor exit +# relays is imported dynamically while compiling the database. +# +# Improvement suggestions are appreciated, please submit them as patches to the location mailing +# list. Refer to https://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/location and https://wiki.ipfire.org/devel/contact +# for further information. # # Please keep this file sorted. # diff --git a/overrides/override-a2.txt b/overrides/override-a2.txt index 502948f..223b4df 100644 --- a/overrides/override-a2.txt +++ b/overrides/override-a2.txt @@ -1,13 +1,21 @@ # # override-a2 [.txt] # -# This file contains Autonomous Systems (AS) or IP networks/addresses -# which are - in fact or with a high level of confidence - belonging -# to satellite network providers (special country code: A2). +# This file contains Autonomous Systems and IP networks used - in fact or with reasonable +# confidence - for customers or dial-in pools of satellite-based internet services. # -# Since a satellite uplink connection is possible from almost -# anywhere in the world, it does not make sense to assign them to a -# specific country. They will be flagged as "A2" in the database. +# While their country code set is preserved in libloc - unless utterly bogus -, it does not +# actually make sense to assign these to a distinct country, since a satellite connection is +# possible from virtually any place in the world. Therefore, they will be flagged as "satellite +# providers" in libloc query results. +# +# For historical reasons, parts of IPFire's web interface use "A2" as a country code for them. +# This violates ISO 3166, and might be changed to a different country code inside a reserved +# range in the future. +# +# Improvement suggestions are appreciated, please submit them as patches to the location mailing +# list. Refer to https://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/location and https://wiki.ipfire.org/devel/contact +# for further information. # # Please keep this file sorted. # diff --git a/overrides/override-a3.txt b/overrides/override-a3.txt index d810d93..b07d4b8 100644 --- a/overrides/override-a3.txt +++ b/overrides/override-a3.txt @@ -1,12 +1,22 @@ # # override-a3 [.txt] # -# This file contains Autonomous Systems (AS) or IP networks/addresses -# which are - in fact or with a high level of confidence - believed -# to be worldwide anycast instances (special country codes: A3). +# This file contains Autonomous Systems and IP networks used - in fact or with reasonable +# confidence - for worldwide anycast services. # -# It does not make sense to assign them to a certain country, they -# will be flagged as "A3" in the database. +# While their country code set is preserved in libloc - unless utterly bogus -, it does not +# make sense to assign these to a distinct country. Therefore, they will be flagged as "anycast" +# in libloc query results. +# +# For historical reasons, parts of IPFire's web interface use "A3" as a country code for them. +# This violates ISO 3166, and might be changed to a different country code inside a reserved +# range in the future. +# +# Improvement suggestions are appreciated, please submit them as patches to the location mailing +# list. Refer to https://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/location and https://wiki.ipfire.org/devel/contact +# for further information. +# +# Please keep this file sorted. #

aut-num: AS69 diff --git a/overrides/override-other.txt b/overrides/override-other.txt index 045b515..d232fc6 100644 --- a/overrides/override-other.txt +++ b/overrides/override-other.txt @@ -1,14 +1,24 @@ # -# override-other [.txt] +# override-a3 [.txt] # -# This file contains Autonomous Systems (AS) or IP networks/addresses -# whose country information in corresponding RIR data is believed or proven -# to be invalid or inaccurate and which do not match to one of the special categories -# A[1-3]. +# This file contains Autonomous Systems and IP networks whose RIR data are believed to be inaccurate, +# incomplete, or bogus on purpose and by chance. A small subset of its entries applies to AS descriptions, +# while the majority covers country code assignments. # -# Such networks might be legitimate (poorly maintained WHOIS data), shady -# (networks owned by letterbox companies in offshore jurisdictions) or -# hostile (faked RIR data in order to bypass location-based filtering). +# The latter are crucial due to location-based firewalling or routing. Inaccurate country code assignments +# therefore pose a security threat to these users, especially if being set intentionally to circumvent such +# filters. +# +# The term "Location" may refer to the actual, physical location of a network (usually hard to enumerate +# beyond a country-level), or its jurisdiction. To the best of our knowledge, the contents of "country"-fields +# in RIR databases were never clarified in this conext. +# +# When in doubt, the physical location of a network will be used below, especially if the jurisdiction of a +# network appears to be not helpful at all, such as offshore letterbox companies on the other end of the world. +# +# Improvement suggestions are appreciated, please submit them as patches to the location mailing +# list. Refer to https://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/location and https://wiki.ipfire.org/devel/contact +# for further information. # # Please keep this file sorted. #