Mass Blackout Takes Russian Internet Offline
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And for a short while, twitter was silent.
Not to mention half the attempts in /var/log/auth.log
Edit: This probably wouldn't reduce the number of attempts, but I'm leaving my try at a joke up.
For everyone who only read the title, a couple of Russian TLDs were no longer available in DNS. That's a far cry from "internet offline."
That's not even remotely interesting. DNS/BGP issues used to be common in the ol' days!
Lol classic Moscow Times bias
I was wondering where all the protest vote and vote strike advocates went!
Do you hear that? That's nothing. That's the sound of silence. Enjoy it.
So it begins
But it didn't begin
A communications disruption can mean only one thing -
invasiontemporary DNS quibbles."You're breaking my
heartDNS, Anakin!"Sure - but was the "quibble" a mistake or intentional?
It's
neveralways DNSIs Swan Lake on TV?
But guys.... Remember, according to Putin everything's a okay and the Russian economy is booming....
“Booming” as in “making noises that sound like catastrophic explosions” lol
That's how you know it's working.
I can pull up yandex just fine.
Yandex has a large office in Amsterdam. Not sure where its all served from but they have offices in 12 countries.
yandex.com resolves to mother russia
That doesn't mean the servers are physically located in Russia. It just means they are controlled by an organisation that considers Russia their primary country.
whois $(dig -t A yandex.com +short | head -1)It doesn't 'resolve' to Russia. The IP was allocated to yandex who's record for that block is listed in Russia. Any IP addres in that /24 can literally be used anywhere in their infrastructure anywhere in the world.
I have a VPS for example that RIPE shows is allocated to a company in Germany but the physical server sits in a datacenter on the west coast of the US.
I’m sure they have sufficient infrastructure to route elsewhere if Russian servers are inaccessible. I doubt anyway that servers in the rest of the world are typically served from Russia since that would be inefficient.