[lxc-users] AWS EC2: timeout connecting to instance metadata webserver (169.254.169.254) for *some* URLs (when connecting from a LXD container)

2020-11-18 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
That's a weird one! In AWS, there is a concept of "instance metadata" - a webserver which lets you fetch some instance metadata using http: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instancedata-data-retrieval.html For example, you can run this (from both AWS/EC2 instance and LXD

Re: [lxc-users] AWS EC2: timeout connecting to instance metadata webserver (169.254.169.254) for *some* URLs (when connecting from a LXD container)

2020-11-18 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
On 2020-11-19 00:07, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: On 2020-11-18 23:50, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: That's a weird one! In AWS, there is a concept of "instance metadata" - a webserver which lets you fetch some instance metadata using http:

Re: [lxc-users] AWS EC2: timeout connecting to instance metadata webserver (169.254.169.254) for *some* URLs (when connecting from a LXD container)

2020-11-18 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
On 2020-11-18 23:50, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: That's a weird one! In AWS, there is a concept of "instance metadata" - a webserver which lets you fetch some instance metadata using http: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instancedata-data-retrieval.html For example, you can