Activity log for bug #1922960

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2021-04-07 19:32:52 Matt Nordhoff bug added bug
2021-04-07 22:34:25 Matt Nordhoff 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 iee.org's nameservers, and either overloading them or triggering some kind of rate limiting or DDoS mitigation and getting blocked. See 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 It might be a good idea to backport a newer version of the package.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. 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 It might be a good idea to backport a newer version of the package.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.
2021-04-19 19:42:23 Matt Nordhoff 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 It might be a good idea to backport a newer version of the package.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. 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 It might be a good idea to backport a newer version of the package.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.)
2021-04-20 08:59:25 Sebastien Bacher ieee-data (Ubuntu): importance Undecided Low
2022-08-01 08:25:21 Launchpad Janitor ieee-data (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2022-08-01 08:28:24 Haw Loeung bug added subscriber The Canonical Sysadmins
2022-08-01 08:28:29 Haw Loeung bug added subscriber Haw Loeung
2022-09-01 09:27:14 Haw Loeung bug watch added https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826104
2022-09-01 09:27:14 Haw Loeung bug task added ieee-data (Debian)
2022-09-02 00:11:22 Bug Watch Updater ieee-data (Debian): status Unknown Fix Released
2024-03-03 21:28:42 Haw Loeung bug task added hundredpapercuts
2024-03-03 21:36:51 Paul White hundredpapercuts: status New Confirmed
2024-03-03 21:36:55 Paul White hundredpapercuts: importance Undecided Low