-----Original Message----- From: <owner-src-committ...@freebsd.org> on behalf of Colin Percival <cperc...@freebsd.org> Date: 2020-05-17, Sunday at 18:30 To: Oliver Pinter <oliver.p...@gmail.com> Cc: "src-committ...@freebsd.org" <src-committ...@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-...@freebsd.org" <svn-src-...@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r361143 - head/release/tools
> On 2020-05-17 16:48, Oliver Pinter wrote: >> On Sunday, May 17, 2020, Colin Percival <cperc...@freebsd.org >> <mailto:cperc...@freebsd.org>> 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 _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
