upgrade? causes off-subnet queries for netbios, portmapper

Bug #584923 reported by LaMont Jones
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update-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

Classful networking died in 1993 (see RFC1519), and very much should not be assumed any more. pommerac (the machine below) is in a /24 network block, and should under no circumstances be querying 10.255.255.255.

May 23 22:46:40 ... IN=eth2 OUT=eth0 SRC=10.X.Y.Z DST=10.255.255.255 LEN=132 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=55211 DPT=111 LEN=112
May 23 23:20:36 ... IN=eth2 OUT=eth0 SRC=10.X.Y.Z DST=10.255.255.255 LEN=96 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=32823 DPT=137 LEN=76
May 23 23:20:41 ... IN=eth2 OUT=eth0 SRC=10.122.37.175 DST=10.255.255.255 LEN=217 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=50864 DPT=138 LEN=197

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