** Description changed: 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. + 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 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826104. + 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 It might be a good idea to backport a newer version of the package.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.
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