Public bug reported:
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
** Affects: ieee-data (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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ieee-data cron fails every month because it DDoSes an upstream website
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