Too many accesses to pci-ids.ucw.cz about pcidb HOT 2 CLOSED

I've created PRs on the following repos to help satisfy @gollux 's request that we notify users. I'm sure the majority of the traffic is from the kubernetes repos, but I don't think it will hurt to proliferate this change more widely.

yunionio/cloudpods#13788
livepeer/go-livepeer#2340
jm33-m0/emp3r0r#103
portainer/agent#280
ericmaustin/unixtools#1

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Hi @gollux! So sorry that my library has caused issues for you!

The way that the library works is actually to first look for the PCI database files in a set of known locations and only if no PCI database file can be found on the local filesystem and the network fetch feature has not been disabled, attempt to fetch the latest PCI database from pci-ids.ucw.cz.

The only time that the network fetch occurs is when the platform is Windows (which AFAIK does not have the PCI database files cached locally like Linux does...) or if the library is loaded from a filesystem (perhaps in a container?) that does not have any of the PCI IDS database files mounted into it from the local Linux host.

If you would please email me jaypipes at gmail dot com any informaiton you have about those 300 unique IP addresses I can do some investigation and see what might be causing those calls to your pci-ids.ucw.cz site from the library. I suspect that may be some testing or CI platform (Kubernetes or one of the Kubernetes networking drivers) that includes this library in the container image used for testing and that container image's filesystem does not have a bind mount to pass the Linux host's pci-ids files into the container.

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