Public bug reported: 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 It might be a good idea to backport a newer version of the package.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. ** Affects: ieee-data (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1922960 Title: ieee-data monthly cron job in Xenial probably DDoSes ieee.org To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ieee-data/+bug/1922960/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
