Jeff Loughridge's questions

I am booting cirros VMs outside of an Openstack environment using libvirt. At boot, the VM checks for metadata twenty times, which adds a lot of latency to the boot time.

cirros-ds 'net' up at 6.14

checking http://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/instance-id
failed 1/20: up 6.18. request failed
failed 2/20: up 18.32. request failed
failed 3/20: up 30.38. request failed
failed 4/20: up 42.44. request failed
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I'm using cirros-0.3.3.

Can I use cloud-init or some other mechanism to disable the metadata lookup?

My business's web site uses the AWS platform. I want the site's visitors to be able to reach my content using the IPv6 protocol. How can I add an IPv6 address?

I created aliases for my domain name's zone apex using the ELB CLI as described in Elastic Load Balancing Developer Guide. I also added a AAAA record using the --rr-type AAAA flag, which is not described in the guide.

The Route 53 GUI is populated after I execute the elb-associate-route53-hosted-zone commands for A and AAAA records. I recorded how the records look in the GUI, deleted the records, and tried to re-create using the GUI only. I receive the following error.

RRSet with DNS name example.com., type A contains an alias target that contains a hosted zone that is an invalid alias target.

I would like to use the Route 53 GUI to perform this operation. Does the Route 53 GUI support the creation of a zone apex alias that points to a Elastic Load Balancer?