Hi there. By design, it does not fetch motd.ubuntu.com with every ssh
session.
Rather, there's a systemd timer that runs, asynchronously once about a
minute after boot, and then every 12 hours (plus/minus a random interval
up to an hour). That systemd timer updates a cache file,
/var/cache/motd, in the background.
At login, it just concatenates the /var/cache/motd file.
Note that it's easy to disable, or change to a different MOTD server, by
editing /etc/default/motd-news.
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Opinion
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1694730
Title:
/etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news calls home on each ssh connection
Status in base-files package in Ubuntu:
Opinion
Bug description:
This happens since Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty)
Why is /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news hitting https://motd.ubuntu.com
each time I create a SSH connection?
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