ieee-data monthly cron job in Xenial probably DDoSes ieee.org
Bug #1922960 reported by
Matt Nordhoff
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Hundred Papercuts |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
| ieee-data (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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| ieee-data (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
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:/
It might be a good idea to backport a newer version of the package.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.)
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| Changed in ieee-data (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ieee-data (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Haw Loeung (hloeung) wrote | #2 |
Revision history for this message
| Haw Loeung (hloeung) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in ieee-data (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
| Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.