<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I have an issue with the cloud-init process on boot of my instance.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">DataSourceEc2.py[WARNING]: '</span><a href="http://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/instance-id'" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">http://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/instance-id'</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"> failed [2/120s]: url error [[Errno 113] No route to host] </span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new
roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I am using this doc -> <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-image/content/centos-image.html" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-image/content/centos-image.html</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Why is this trying to contact a 3rd party server? Is this no longer a valid IP address or URL? I cannot get a response from any machine I try. </div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Is the cloud-init actually necessary, if I am not using any aws services? </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Thank you for your help</div></div></body></html>