Russia suffered a widespread internet outage affecting users across the country, with access to websites on the local .ru domain down.
  • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    191·
    11 months ago

    Russia suffered a widespread internet outage affecting users across the country, with access to websites on the local .ru domain down.

    The issue was linked to a technical problem with the .ru domain’s global Domain Name System Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, which is used to secure data exchanged in internet protocol networks, Russia’s Digital Ministry said in a statement on Telegram Tuesday.

    The ministry said later Tuesday that the problem had been resolved and access restored.

    Websites including the most popular local search engine Yandex.ru, ecommerce leaders Ozon.ru and Wildberries.ru, and apps of the country’s biggest banks — Sberbank PJSC and VTB Group — were all affected by the outage, state-run Ria reported, citing Downradar, a traffic monitoring service.

    Disruptions were reported in Moscow, the Moscow region, St. Petersburg, Tatarstan and the Sverdlovsk and Novosibirsk regions, Ria said.

    Sberbank and VTB didn’t immediately reply to an emailed request for comment. Yandex declined to comment.

  • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
    152·
    11 months ago

    Can you imagine if your entire country lost access to the Internet all at once at the same time? Pandemonium.

    Except for Russia I guess. Or North Korea.

    • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      It would be extremely interesting to see what kind traffic dip there was on x-twitter after that happened though.

      • jas0n@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Don’t worry. There are enough useful idiots outside Russia parroting their propaganda already. We barely even need their help at this point.

  • febra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    11 months ago

    This is such a nothing burger. I know it sounds impressive, but this happens quite a lot all over the globe, and it usually gets resolved quite quickly (usually minutes). Packet routing faults are not as uncommon as one may think, especially when ISPs are playing around with their networking stack. Especially DNS related faults. Just two weeks ago Deutsche Telekom managed to take down our entire internet infrastructure (at a big German company) because they were playing around with their DNS. Hell, even service providers like AWS can take down a huge chunk of a country’s internet (and this has happened in 2021 in the US). AWS owns over 33% of the global cloud infrastructure market.

  • mhague@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    It’s weird that the article doesn’t say when it happened, just that officials said things 'later Tuesday '. Was it a blip or all day outage?