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[–] bazus1@lemmy.world 111 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And for a short while, twitter was silent.

[–] IonAddis@lemmy.world 110 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 105 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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."

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago

That's not even remotely interesting. DNS/BGP issues used to be common in the ol' days!

[–] nicholasio@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Lol classic Moscow Times bias

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

I was wondering where all the protest vote and vote strike advocates went!

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago

Do you hear that? That's nothing. That's the sound of silence. Enjoy it.

[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

It's ~~never~~ always DNS

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago

Is Swan Lake on TV?

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But guys.... Remember, according to Putin everything's a okay and the Russian economy is booming....

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“Booming” as in “making noises that sound like catastrophic explosions” lol

[–] Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

That's how you know it's working.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can pull up yandex just fine.

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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:  2022-04-05T15:29:50Z
[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years 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.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 1 points 2 years 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.