On EC2 instance created from: ami-3d4ff254 (us-east-1, 64-bit, ebs)
~$ /usr/bin/sudo /sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -d 169.254.169.254 -j DROP ~$ byobu
at this point, byobu will hang (sometimes it starts, sometimes it doesn't)
On EC2 instance created from: ami-3d4ff254 (us-east-1, 64-bit, ebs)
~$ /usr/bin/sudo /sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -d 169.254.169.254 -j DROP
~$ byobu
at this point, byobu will hang (sometimes it starts, sometimes it doesn't)