/etc/ircd/ircd.motd is in ircd-irc2 2.11.2p2+dfsg-2.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o644.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
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| This is Debian's default IRCd server configuration for irc2.11. If you |
| see this and if you are the server administrator, just edit ircd.conf |
| and ircd.motd in /etc/ircd. |
| Martin Loschwitz, 1st January 2005 |
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