[Bug 1922960] Re: ieee-data monthly cron job in Xenial probably DDoSes ieee.org

[Haw Loeung]

Over 500 emails today from VMs and hosts about the
/etc/cron.monthly/ieee-data job failing (exited with return code 1).

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Title:
  ieee-data monthly cron job in Xenial probably DDoSes ieee.org

Status in ieee-data package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Xenial has an older version of ieee-data, which includes a monthly
  cron job to download stuff from the IEEE's website.

  In my experience DNS resolution fails, suggesting that older Ubuntu
  and Debian systems are DDoSing ieee.org's nameservers, and either
  overloading them or triggering some kind of rate limiting or DDoS
  mitigation and getting blocked.

  See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826104.

  It might be a good idea to backport a newer version of the package.

  I'm pretty sure the cron job fails anyway because the URL changed or
  something.

  (Note: I do not represent the IEEE or anything. I'm just an Ubuntu
  user.)

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