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Mass Blackout Takes Russian Internet Offline (www.themoscowtimes.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yandex has a large office in Amsterdam. Not sure where its all served from but they have offices in 12 countries.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

yandex.com resolves to mother russia

% This is the RIPE Database query service.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
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% 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

whois $(dig -t A yandex.com +short | head -1)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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.