geo.freebsd.org and ipv6 in AU sometimes presents an nginx login screen for www.freebsd.org

This is pretty obscure and I'm not sure who to contact regarding this issue, so this is more a question on who to contact.

When I browse to www or docs the ipv6 geo site is directing me to https://monitor.pao.freebsd.org/ which in turn presents a "Sign in to monitor.pao.freebsd.org:443" form. If I force ipv4 then I get to the various sites just fine.

This is what I see when I dig gns1.freebsd.org and gns2.freebsd.org with "dig @gns1.freebsd.org web.geo.freebsd.org aaaa":

web.geo.freebsd.org. 150 IN AAAA 2620:11c:5001:1099:1337::20
web.geo.freebsd.org. 150 IN AAAA 2001:5a8:601:4b::50:3
web.geo.freebsd.org. 150 IN AAAA 2001:4f8:ffff:6::50:1

I'm suspicious of the 2001:4f8:ffff:6::50:1 entry as curl -6 -v shows:

* Host www.freebsd.org:443 was resolved.
* IPv6: 2001:4f8:ffff:6::50:1, 2001:5a8:601:4b::50:3, 2620:11c:5001:1099:1337::20
* IPv4: (none)
* Trying [2001:4f8:ffff:6::50:1]:443...
* ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* CAfile: /opt/local/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt
* CApath: none
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 / x25519 / RSASSA-PSS
* ALPN: server accepted http/1.1
* Server certificate:
* subject: CN=monitor.pao.freebsd.org
* start date: Nov 11 20:17:36 2025 GMT
* expire date: Feb 9 20:17:35 2026 GMT
* subjectAltName does not match hostname www.freebsd.org

This has been happening at least for the last couple of days and I presume it's somewhat local to geo location for my AU-base ipv6 addresses as otherwise I'm sure if it was happening globally, it would have been noticed by now.
 
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