You get a host. If you are paranoid you'll ask whether that address is leading you to poal at all. You have a route. See paranoia above. You observe that ICMP communicates to poal and TCP does not (at least through your browser).
Check the certificate you'd get from poal.co (yeah, your browser doesn't work, I know... curl or openssl maybe?).
Is your browser using DNS over HTTPS? Maybe try switching that on or off.
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