On 2026-09-02, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 20:29:55 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
>> The other *weirdness* is that the dig command returns *different*
>> IP address for the server listed in the Brave Browser repository config file
>> -- it seems to depend on geography and/or ISP path to the Internet backbone
>> (some DNS magic going on here).
>
> Here's what I get:
>
> hobbit:~$ getent hosts brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com
> 3.170.51.70     d9owkidwx4k9e.cloudfront.net 
> brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com
> 3.170.51.27     d9owkidwx4k9e.cloudfront.net 
> brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com
> 3.170.51.36     d9owkidwx4k9e.cloudfront.net 
> brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com
> 3.170.51.24     d9owkidwx4k9e.cloudfront.net 
> brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com

Here I get

$ getent hosts brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com
18.245.175.51   d9owkidwx4k9e.cloudfront.net 
brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com
18.245.175.62   d9owkidwx4k9e.cloudfront.net 
brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com
18.245.175.125  d9owkidwx4k9e.cloudfront.net 
brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com
18.245.175.4    d9owkidwx4k9e.cloudfront.net 
brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com

And the same with dig. I think Robert is right guessing about
geography. The error is perhaps caused by a cache or dns not
updated. @Robert : is the error temporary ?

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