On 2020-05-17 16:48, Oliver Pinter wrote: > On Sunday, May 17, 2020, Colin Percival <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > +REGION=`fetch -qo- > http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone > <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?
That's a magic IP address which connects to the EC2 "instance metadata service". It doesn't actually go out over the network. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
