On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 4:49 PM Oliver Pinter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, May 17, 2020, Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote: >> +# Provide instructions on how to mount the requested filesystem. >> +FS=$1 >> +REGION=`fetch -qo- >> http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone | sed -e >> 's/[a-z]$//'` > > > What will be this hard-coded ip address without any verification or at least > https?
It's a special non-routable IP that is used in at least AWS and Azure to provide some VM services. Traffic to and from it never leaves the virtual overlay network, which by design VM instances already trust to provide privacy. It doesn't require functioning DNS to access the raw IP. Conrad _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
