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Date:      Sun, 17 May 2020 17:24:03 -0700
From:      Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
To:        Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
Cc:        "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r361143 - head/release/tools
Message-ID:  <CAG6CVpX1Wdhf6a_YyZNgUxwXXD39Oi_HNVONVet7_Rjvo0yrbw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 4:49 PM Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, May 17, 2020, Colin Percival <cperciva@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.

Conrad



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