how to specify trusted hosts in windows config file

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Apr 5 06:49:54 EDT 2020


On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 8:22 PM Peter J. Holzer <hjp-python at hjp.at> wrote:
>
> On 2020-03-31 08:35:35 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 8:21 AM <dcwhatthe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > For pypi.org alone, my dns lookup differs from yours:  151.101.128.223.
> >
> > Ahh, I think I see what's happening. Something's interfering with your
> > DNS - that's a Fastly IP address.
>
> The four addresses you got were also Fastly addresses:
>
> | pypi.org. 86278 IN A 151.101.192.223
> | pypi.org. 86278 IN A 151.101.64.223
> | pypi.org. 86278 IN A 151.101.128.223
> | pypi.org. 86278 IN A 151.101.0.223
>
> And in fact the address dcwhatthe gets (151.101.128.223) is one of those
> four.
>
> So it doesn't look like something is interfering with DNS.

Oh, good point, I missed that. Though the fact that it gives different
results _at all_ was the surprising part to me.

> But maybe something intercepts the SSL connection? Since he wrote that
> he's at the office, I'm guessing its some kind of malware protection,
> probably at the corporate firewall.

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm worried about. In fact, this is
*exactly* what SSL is supposed to protect against.

ChrisA


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