I’m curious about the blocking status of RT.com, the Russian state media organ. Using my own connection, I can reach it without difficulty. It’s sitting behind DDoS-Guard, a (now) Russian bulletproof hoster which was, ironically, a Ukrainian company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS-Guard But many of the common “is it reachable” sites show it completely down: https://semonto.com/tools/website-reachability-check.html?test=2a4bc50397731... https://www.uptrends.com/tools/uptime?toolRequestGuid=3c1bd632-7ec7-4420-823... Does anyone have any insight into what mechanisms are being used to block RT? -Bill
On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 10:44:50AM +0100, Bill Woodcock via Outages <outages@outages.org> wrote a message of 79 lines which said:
Using my own connection, I can reach it without difficulty. ... But many of the common “is it reachable” sites show it completely down:
RIPE Atlas probes can mostly connect with TLS: % blaeu-cert -r 200 -4 rt.com 198 probes reported [FAILED TO GET A CERT: timeout reading hello] : 1 occurrences [FAILED TO GET A CERT: connect: timeout] : 20 occurrences [/C=RU/L=Moscow/O=ANO TV-Novosti/CN=*.rt.com] : 177 occurrences Test #39116058 done at 2022-03-02T09:58:59Z Among those who cannot, we can guess they are on networks which block russian IP addresses such as 185.178.208.0/24 (or russian AS). No sign of DNS blocking anywhere.
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