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 _______________________________________________ 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"
