From 3da6feda130da78c93c70244f43dba3241d85264 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jah <jah@e0a8ed71-7df4-0310-8962-fdc924857419>
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 15:28:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Treat stale, unwritable files as unreadable.

---
 scripts/whois-ip.nse | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/whois-ip.nse b/scripts/whois-ip.nse
index de7fc6914..18a2a46a8 100644
--- a/scripts/whois-ip.nse
+++ b/scripts/whois-ip.nse
@@ -1789,7 +1789,8 @@ function get_local_assignments_data()
       elseif exists and readable then
         update_required, modified_date, entity_tag = requires_updating( file )
         if update_required and not writable then
-          return nil
+          update_required = false
+          readable = false
         end
       end