diff --git a/bin/py-i2phosts-injector b/bin/py-i2phosts-injector
index 00a5832..8bc8b6a 100755
--- a/bin/py-i2phosts-injector
+++ b/bin/py-i2phosts-injector
@@ -77,7 +77,9 @@ for line in f:
         continue
     # strip trailing '\n'
     line = line.rstrip('\n')
-    entry = line.split('=', 1)
+    # split and ignore comment after b64hash
+    data = line.split("#!", 1)
+    entry = data[0].split("=", 1)
     try:
         hostname = validate_hostname(entry[0])
         base64 = validate_b64hash(entry[1], check_uniq=False) # don't require uniqueness