> On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 20:24, Conrad Meyer <c...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 4:49 PM Oliver Pinter <oliver.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sunday, May 17, 2020, Colin Percival <cperc...@freebsd.org> 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. > > And, more information at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address
And the definative document(s) https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3927.txt https://who.is/whois-ip/ip-address/169.254.0.0 -- Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
