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Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com

From local10 <local10@tutanota.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com
Date 2022-01-04 01:00 +0100
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Jan 3, 2022, 23:08 by dsr@randomstring.org:

> Alright. Put this into your /etc/hosts temporarily:
>
> 152.195.33.23  www.usps.com tools.usps.com www.usps.gov
>
> That's unlikely to be an optimal IP from their CDN, but it is
> currently working.
>

That fixed it, I got the USPS tracking page to load normally. Still not why it worked as tools.usps.com resolves for me to 152.195.33.23:

# dig tools.usps.com

; <<>> DiG 9.16.22-Debian <<>> tools.usps.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45738
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
; COOKIE: 77e474050843f63a0100000061d38b021b182f925c475f14 (good)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;tools.usps.com.                        IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
tools.usps.com.         42      IN      CNAME   cs1799.wpc.upsiloncdn.net.
cs1799.wpc.upsiloncdn.net. 2078 IN      A       152.195.33.23

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Jan 03 18:47:14 EST 2022
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 126




> Oh. Are you using DNS-over-HTTPS? 
>

I used to but I have disabled it for now. Even with DNS-over-HTTPS disabled I was getting the certificate error until I put 152.195.33.23 into the /etc/hosts.


Regards,

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Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-03 23:10 +0100
  Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2022-01-03 23:20 +0100
    Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-03 23:20 +0100
      Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Mark Allums <maa@allums.com> - 2022-01-03 23:40 +0100
        Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-03 23:50 +0100
      Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-03 23:50 +0100
        Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-04 00:30 +0100
        Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 01:00 +0100
        [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 01:10 +0100
          Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2022-01-04 19:20 +0100
            Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2022-01-04 19:40 +0100
              Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 19:40 +0100
              Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2022-01-04 21:30 +0100
            Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 19:40 +0100
              Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-04 20:40 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 21:00 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead  for the USPS.com Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-04 22:10 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-05 06:20 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead  for the USPS.com Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-05 14:50 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-05 18:30 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead  for the USPS.com Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-05 18:50 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-05 19:50 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead  for the USPS.com Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-05 22:00 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2022-01-04 21:00 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-04 22:30 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-05 06:20 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-05 13:50 +0100
            Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 19:50 +0100
      Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-03 23:50 +0100
    Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-03 23:50 +0100
  Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-01-03 23:40 +0100
    Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2022-01-03 23:50 +0100
      Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 00:30 +0100
        Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2022-01-04 00:40 +0100
          Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2022-01-04 00:50 +0100
          Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 00:50 +0100
        Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com RP <reyadmin@gmail.com> - 2022-01-04 00:50 +0100
  Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 07:00 +0100
    [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 13:00 +0100
      Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 13:20 +0100
    GUIs (was: Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-01-04 15:00 +0100
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