Public bug reported:

Hello,

As mentioned in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826104#10 the monthly cronjob to fetch new OUI
data from standards.ieee.org was removed. While this resolves the denial
of service attack on the IEEE website, the solution of no longer
updating the files means over time they become outdated (unless the
package is re-installed or /usr/bin/update-ieee-data is run manually).

This could be solved by placing the ieee-data cronjob in /etc/cron.d
with a random day and time of the month, or by pushing a package update
whenever the IEEE website contains new data.

Kind regards,
Martin

** Affects: ieee-data (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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