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



On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 01:09:06AM +0100, local10 wrote:
Jan 3, 2022, 23:08 by dsr@randomstring.org:
Alright. Put this into your /etc/hosts temporarily:
[...]
OK, I understand now what the problem was. Quite a while ago I added a line into the /etc/hosts to fix a temp DNS issue and completely forgot about it. So while DNS server was correctly resolving tools.usps.com to 152.195.33.23, my previous /etc/hosts entry was overriding it to 23.217.162.158 which was causing the certificate issue.

And this is why putting stuff into /etc/hosts is basically never the right answer. :)


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