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I could imagine HPUX 10.x not allowing that. They followed all manor of optional RFC's, then later added options to disable the checks for some of them. Somew

I could imagine HPUX 10.x not allowing that. They followed all manor of optional RFC's, then later added options to disable the checks for some of them. Somewhat related, I used to blackhole 169.254/16 (zeroconf) on our linux images. Then people started using that in AWS and could not reach their internal API's. They route that network internally.

icedchai 8y ago
Ah yes, EC2 uses 169.254 for the "metadata API." Basically, an internal network that allows a host to retrieve its own configuration data. I can see how that denying that would cause problems!