[lxc-users] Mysterious lxd server communication with Internet

[Michael Johnson]

Ah yes. I suspect this explains it perfectly. Thank you, Free.

Free Ekanayaka wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> see:
> 
> https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/doc/image-handling.md#auto-update
> 
> Presumeably you started some container in the past with a command like:
> 
> lxc launch ubuntu:18.04
> 
> so the lxd server internally recorded the fact that you asked for an
> 18.04 image. From that point on, it will try to refresh that image at
> regular interval (unless images.auto_update_interval is set to 0).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Free
> 
> Michael Johnson <johnson at cognitech-ut.com> writes:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> Due to working on other projects, I've not had my lxd server running in
>> quite some time. Today when I started it, without any containers
>> running, the lxd server immediately began sending and receiving Internet
>> traffic. It was sending about 5 and receiving about 155 KB/sec. It went
>> on like this for 20 minutes or so before I stopped the lxd server. Is
>> this normal behavior? If so, with whom, and what, am I communicating
>> when this happens?
>>
>> Thanks
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