** 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  It might be a good idea to backport a newer version of the package.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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  ieee-data monthly cron job in Xenial probably DDoSes ieee.org

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