Hello,

* would we not want this to be configurable in countries.txt?

* The list should probably be a tuple.

-Michael

> On 1 Apr 2021, at 20:57, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Both the Bouvet Island (BV) and Antarctica (AQ) are unpopulated at the
> time of writing. Network owners/operators putting these countries into
> their RIR data objects are either completely braindead or doing so for
> hostile reasons.
> 
> While we might correct these locations to something useful by manually
> creating overrides for them, the rationale behind this patch is not to
> let these countries appear on productive systems in the first place, as
> we know they _cannot_ be true.
> 
> Therefore, this patch skips any network object that has either AQ or BV
> country code set.
> 
> See also: https://lists.ipfire.org/pipermail/location/2020-October/000199.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org>
> ---
> src/python/location-importer.in | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/python/location-importer.in b/src/python/location-importer.in
> index 1e08458..ac678dc 100644
> --- a/src/python/location-importer.in
> +++ b/src/python/location-importer.in
> @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ class CLI(object):
> 			return
> 
> 		# Skip objects with unknown country codes
> -		if validcountries and inetnum.get("country") not in validcountries:
> +		if validcountries and (inetnum.get("country") not in validcountries or inetnum.get("country") in ["AQ", "BV"]):
> 			log.warning("Skipping network with bogus country '%s': %s" % \
> 				(inetnum.get("country"), inetnum.get("inet6num") or inetnum.get("inetnum")))
> 			return
> -- 
> 2.26.2