An IP address won’t work since it’s not (or extremely unlikely) listed in the certificate.
>> An IP address won’t work ...
peacefully without warnings
I am thinking he criticized our betters and they are blocking him.... the future for us all!
I’m being blocked from basic whois function...
Can you check if for 45.79.56.181 ?
A more interesting artifact is that the round trip from the link somehow altered the Ubuntu preferred repository for updates from a US main source to:
aze.archive.ubuntu.com
Azerbaijan. Really ? No, I did not select getting my software updates from Azerbiajan...
I see there’s an Ubuntu update out now, addressing, and one assumes, attempting to fix the backdoor or the hack that enables spoofing the repository (and thus kernel) access.