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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
Is 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.
It's ~~never~~ always DNS
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
% This is the RIPE Database query service.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% The RIPE Database is subject to Terms and Conditions.
% See https://apps.db.ripe.net/docs/HTML-Terms-And-Conditions
% Note: this output has been filtered.
% To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag.
% Information related to '77.88.55.0 - 77.88.55.255'
% Abuse contact for '77.88.55.0 - 77.88.55.255' is '[email protected]'
inetnum: 77.88.55.0 - 77.88.55.255
netname: YANDEX-77-88-55
status: ASSIGNED PA
country: RU
descr: Yandex enterprise network
admin-c: YNDX1-RIPE
tech-c: YNDX1-RIPE
remarks: INFRA-AW
org: ORG-YA1-RIPE
mnt-by: YANDEX-MNT
source: RIPE
created: 2012-10-12T12:22:03Z
last-modified: 2022-04-05T15:29:50Z
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.
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)
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.