feat: add prominent warning banner for non-standard IP prefixes

Add a highly visible ASCII-art warning banner that is printed at
startup when the configured IP prefixes fall outside the standard
Tailscale CGNAT (100.64.0.0/10) or ULA (fd7a:115c:a1e0::/48) ranges.

The warning fires once even if both v4 and v6 are non-standard, and
the warnBanner() function is reusable for other critical configuration
warnings in the future.

Also updates config-example.yaml to clarify that subsets of the
default ranges are fine, but ranges outside CGNAT/ULA are not.

Closes #3055
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Tanayk07
2026-03-08 12:39:17 +05:30
committed by Kristoffer Dalby
parent 3d53f97c82
commit 5105033224
2 changed files with 73 additions and 26 deletions

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@@ -50,12 +50,21 @@ noise:
# List of IP prefixes to allocate tailaddresses from.
# Each prefix consists of either an IPv4 or IPv6 address,
# and the associated prefix length, delimited by a slash.
# It must be within IP ranges supported by the Tailscale
# client - i.e., subnets of 100.64.0.0/10 and fd7a:115c:a1e0::/48.
# See below:
# IPv6: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/22ebb25e833264f58d7c3f534a8b166894a89536/net/tsaddr/tsaddr.go#LL81C52-L81C71
#
# WARNING: These prefixes MUST be subsets of the standard Tailscale ranges:
# - IPv4: 100.64.0.0/10 (CGNAT range)
# - IPv6: fd7a:115c:a1e0::/48 (Tailscale ULA range)
#
# Using a SUBSET of these ranges is supported and useful if you want to
# limit IP allocation to a smaller block (e.g., 100.64.0.0/24).
#
# Using ranges OUTSIDE of CGNAT/ULA is NOT supported and will cause
# undefined behaviour. The Tailscale client has hard-coded assumptions
# about these ranges and will break in subtle, hard-to-debug ways.
#
# See:
# IPv4: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/22ebb25e833264f58d7c3f534a8b166894a89536/net/tsaddr/tsaddr.go#L33
# Any other range is NOT supported, and it will cause unexpected issues.
# IPv6: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/22ebb25e833264f58d7c3f534a8b166894a89536/net/tsaddr/tsaddr.go#LL81C52-L81C71
prefixes:
v4: 100.64.0.0/10
v6: fd7a:115c:a1e0::/48