Russia forces services to move to Russian DNS, stop using external CDNs

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27 points·phoe-krk··4 comments

I am not sure how to feel about this. Will a pariah status ultimately leave Russia with a more robust and resilient electronic posture?

In all this jubilation around Russia being "cancelled", I can't help but wonder if some grand experiment is afoot here, which will further the splinternet, and lead to more governments secededing global structures that were ostensibly instruments of peace and cooperation.

I've been all for ways we could use networks to influence Russia, but I reluctantly had to admit ICANN made the hard, unpopular but correct decision in rejecting Ukraine's plea to just "unplug" Russia.

The writing has been on the wall since DNS became politicised with regard to organisations like TPB, Wikileaks and SciHub. Lots of what's been going on seems against the spirit of the Paris Call of 2018. Are we emboldening regimes and even commercial power blocs to threaten or impose internet outages?

The splinternet was always going to come as long as BRICS countries insisted on rewriting the rules of their local Internets in their favour.

I was recently wondering about that - Cloudflare is still protecting Russian servers, AWS, Google still work there.

There are multiple Ukrainian and Polish people working in those companies and a history of internal activism.

My hopeful bet was that US is gathering a ton of intelligence right now from all those sources.

They'll have that working, tested and deployed by tomorrow afternoon. Not.

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