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FNP calling IP address 169.254.169.254 to detect Google Compute environment

Question: As we already know that Flexnet Pusliher sends metadata queries every few seconds to the IP address 169.254.169.254 on the AWS environment (Amazon EC2 detection), however, does it send the request to the same IP address to detect Google C...

mrathinam Revenera Moderator Dec 13, 2021

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