@amarand seems like it's changing once/day, but it's a new system for us & so we're not routinely connecting to it yet.

'local' here means corporate IT, inside the overarching organizational firewall* but not in the same state as me. I don't think there are proxies between me & this host, but don't really know.

Host is some flavor of linux. I only begrudgingly got shell access--definitely no root.

*I assume there is such a thing