And for a short while, twitter was silent.
It legitimately surprised me back when Russia first attacked Ukraine how parts of the internet suddenly reverted in tone to how the early 2000s internet used to be. The posts pushing subtle division in random message forums just stopped for a few days.
Really made me realize how pervasive the social engineering of English speakers by outside agencies has become online. I think about it much more, using that brief cessation as a touchstone. Like, my memories of forums being saner weren’t false, heh.
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!
So it begins
But it didn’t begin
Internet outages in countries at war typically happen to control dissent and communication. Something is happening.
A communications disruption can mean only one thing -
invasiontemporary DNS quibbles.
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.
Is Swan Lake on TV?
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 'abuse@yandex.ru' 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: 2022-04-05T15:29:50ZThat 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)
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
