State what the default blocklist covers (closes #244)
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The README's egress section and the comment above blockedNetworks now state what the default blocklist covers: the IPv4 private and reserved ranges, IPv6 loopback, unique local and link-local addresses, and certain public addresses, each added only because it hands credentials, user data or bootstrap material to whatever can reach it without the caller presenting anything. That is the same material as the rule above alwaysBlockedNetworks, so a future candidate can be accepted or refused against one rule.

A provider's other public addresses, such as 161.26.0.0/16 and 166.8.0.0/14, are not refused. Docs and a comment only; the lists are unchanged.

Model: opus-5-5
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@@ -157,6 +157,21 @@ public cloud metadata addresses: currently only `168.63.129.16`, Azure's
WireServer, which serves an Azure VM its credentials. Because it is a
public address, listing it in `ALLOWED_EGRESS_CIDRS` reopens it.
That is all the default blocklist covers: the IPv4 private and reserved
ranges; of IPv6, only loopback (`::1`), unique local addresses
(`fc00::/7`) and link-local addresses (`fe80::/10`); and certain public
addresses. A public address belongs on the default blocklist only if it
hands credentials, user data or bootstrap material to whatever can reach
it, without the caller presenting anything. A provider's other public
addresses are not refused. IBM Cloud, for example, serves its package
mirrors, time servers and object storage on `161.26.0.0/16`, and the
private endpoints of its own cloud services on `166.8.0.0/14`. Neither
range hands out credentials that way: the token service among those
endpoints issues a token only in exchange for something the caller
presents, such as an API key. Reaching these services can be a
legitimate delivery, and every cloud has some, so a partial list would
promise coverage it does not give.
That default is also inconvenient for the thing webhooker is mostly
for: taking a public webhook and forwarding it to something on your own
network. A container on the same Docker network, a box on `10.x`, a
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@@ -43,6 +43,13 @@ var (
// permit specific blocks out of this set with
// ALLOWED_EGRESS_CIDRS; see Guard.
//
// A public address belongs on the default blocklist only if it
// hands credentials, user data or bootstrap material to whatever
// can reach it, without the caller presenting anything. A
// provider's other public addresses are not refused, since
// reaching them can be legitimate and no list of them could be
// complete.
//
//nolint:gochecknoglobals // package-level network list is appropriate here
var blockedNetworks []*net.IPNet