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[Robie Basak <1714602@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #826104
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826104

** Also affects: ieee-data (Debian) via
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826104
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Changed in: ieee-data (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: ieee-data (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Tags added: bitesize

** Also affects: ieee-data (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: ieee-data (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: ieee-data (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: ieee-data (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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Title:
  ieee-data cron fails every month because it DDoSes an upstream website

Status in ieee-data package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ieee-data source package in Xenial:
  Triaged
Status in ieee-data package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  This is a known and fixed upstream bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
  bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826104

  The package tries to update its data every month from an apparently
  not so strong host, causing a classic thundering horde DDoS.

  Debian fixed this by deciding the cronjob wasn't such a good idea
  after all and simply removing it.

  The fixed version of the package is in zesty and above, while xenial
  still has a bad version.

  _Release Information:_

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
  Release:	16.04

  _Package Information:_

  $ apt-cache policy ieee-data
  ieee-data:
    Installed: 20150531.1
    Candidate: 20150531.1
    Version table:
   *** 20150531.1 500
          500 http://ubuntumirror.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
          500 http://ubuntumirror.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  _What you expected to happen:_

  Nothing

  _What happened instead:_

  I got this e-mail from cron:

  Subject: Cron <root@host> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
  Date: Fri,  1 Sep 2017 06:55:47 +0200 (CEST)
  From: Cron Daemon <root@host>
  To: root@host

  run-parts: /etc/cron.monthly/ieee-data exited with return code 1

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