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#!/usr/bin/python
"""
To use this to mimic the EC2 metadata service entirely, run it like:
  # where 'eth0' is *some* interface.  if i used 'lo:0' i got 5 second or so delays on response.
  sudo ifconfig eth0:0 169.254.169.254 netmask 255.255.255.255

  sudo ./mdserv 169.254.169.254:80
Then:
  wget -q http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id -O -; echo
  curl --silent http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id ; echo