-----Original Message----- From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Colin Percival <[email protected]> Date: 2020-05-17, Sunday at 18:30 To: Oliver Pinter <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: svn commit: r361143 - head/release/tools
> 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. A comment would be appreciated, e.g. "Amazon uses this link-local address for the EC2 instance metadata service" Thanks, Ravi (rpokala@) > -- > 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]"
