Job and node tokens travel in the per-MAC pxelinux file, readable by any host on the provisioning network over TFTP; with a job token one could fetch the deploy seed (user-data, tag cloud-config) or report the job, with a node token the stateless overlay (e.g. munge.key). The region knows the address it gives each machine (static DHCP leases from the network model): /jobs/self, job progress, phone-home and the node overlay are now refused from anywhere else (403, an event on the machine). Through a remote rack controller the address is the rack's own X-Forwarded-For entry, believed only from an authenticated rack. A machine without a fixed address (proxy DHCP) binds a job to the first address that uses it. agent_source_check: false turns this off. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>