Comment 40 for bug 216847

It seems like I can't add another Debian bug reference to this bug, but I found this one to be a very interesting read:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=982950

In a nutshell, although the "After=network-online.target" change can be considered to be a workaround here, I find it quite unlikely that the Debian maintainer (and therefore Ubuntu) will accept a patch proposing to use this statement in openssh's systemd service file. You can find a rationale by Colin in the bug I mentioned above.

In a way, I think this bug is similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nfs-utils/+bug/1918141, and we still don't seem to have a good "silver bullet" for these cases...