svn commit: r361143 - head/release/tools

[Colin Percival]

On 2020-05-17 16:48, Oliver Pinter wrote:
> On Sunday, May 17, 2020, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org
> <mailto:cperciva at 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.

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Colin Percival
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