Bug#751377: percona-xtrabackup: talks home without asking

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Package: percona-xtrabackup
Severity: serious




innobackupex.pl

      my $advice = pingback(
         instances => $instances_to_check,
         protocol  => $protocol,
         url       => $args{url}                       # testing
                   || $ENV{PERCONA_VERSION_CHECK_URL}  # testing
                   || "$protocol://v.percona.com",
      );


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Mit freundlichen Grüßen


Bernd Zeimetz
Systems Engineer
Debian Developer

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According to our firewall logs, percona xtrabackup tries to talk home without having explicit permission to do so. I think the code is somewhere around here:

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