Default-block Azure WireServer's public address (closes #245)
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Add 168.63.129.16 (Azure WireServer) to blockedNetworks, the default
blocklist, not alwaysBlockedNetworks: it is public unicast, so an
operator who lists it in ALLOWED_EGRESS_CIDRS can reach it again. The
refusal message, the allowlist startup warning, the README and the
comments no longer call every blocked address private/reserved, and
no longer claim the allowlist cannot open any metadata endpoint.

Sources:
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/what-is-ip-address-168-63-129-16
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/metadata-security-protocol/overview

Deviation: 147.75.207.243 (Equinix Metal) is not added; Equinix
documents only a hostname, and the service was sunset on 2026-06-30.

Model: opus-5-5
This commit was merged in pull request #334.
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@@ -157,6 +157,11 @@ private and reserved ranges — RFC 1918, loopback, CGNAT, link-local and
the rest — are refused, which stops a target from being used to make
webhooker probe the network it sits in.
Besides the private and reserved ranges, the default blocklist refuses
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 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
@@ -195,15 +200,16 @@ Two things this setting cannot do:
the list is always an allowlist; an empty list (the default) means
every private and reserved range stays refused. Note that
`0.0.0.0/0` gets you most of the way there anyway, per above.
- **It cannot open link-local, or a cloud metadata endpoint that
discloses credentials or user data.** An address is on the list below
when both of these hold: the provider fixes it, so it cannot collide
with anything you run; and reaching it hands out credentials, user
data or bootstrap material. Those stay blocked no matter what you
list, including when you list them outright or list a supernet such
as `0.0.0.0/0`, `::/0`, `fd00::/8` or `100.64.0.0/10`. Treat this as
best effort rather than a guarantee — it is a hand-maintained list
and the caveat below the table applies:
- **It cannot open link-local, or a cloud metadata endpoint at a
non-public address that discloses credentials or user data.** An
address is on the list below when it is not a public address and both
of these hold: the provider fixes it, so it cannot collide with
anything you run; and reaching it hands out credentials, user data or
bootstrap material. Those stay blocked no matter what you list,
including when you list them outright or list a supernet such as
`0.0.0.0/0`, `::/0`, `fd00::/8` or `100.64.0.0/10`. Treat this as best
effort rather than a guarantee — it is a hand-maintained list and the
caveat below the table applies:
| Blocked unconditionally | What it is |
| ----------------------- | ---------- |
@@ -242,7 +248,8 @@ Two things this setting cannot do:
encodings, which the default blocklist does not match. A publicly
routable metadata address is not listed here, because nothing on this
list can be reopened and blocking one that way would leave you no
escape hatch at all.
escape hatch at all; Azure's `168.63.129.16` is refused by the default
blocklist instead, as described above.
This list is not exhaustive of every cloud's metadata address — if
yours is not here, do not allowlist the block that contains it.