On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 20:24, Conrad Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
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