On the morning of January 24, Russians began complaining en masse about problems with the services that allowed them to bypass mobile internet blockages. explained resource "Durov's Code", a whole series VPN services suddenly lost access to multiple servers that were used to bypass mobile internet restrictions in Russian regions.
According to the Durov Code, a number of VPN services successfully bypassed whitelist restrictions by using Russian servers with whitelisted IP addresses, which were also used by whitelisted services. The latter, as a reminder, remain functional even when mobile internet restrictions are imposed and most websites become unavailable.
To operate these restriction-bypassing services, developers utilize, among other things, cascading chains of Russian servers, disguising traffic as legitimate resources from a "whitelist." According to the "Durov Code," Roskomnadzor has demanded that cloud providers prevent the pools of IP addresses used for whitelisted resources from overlapping with those used by other clients.
This likely explains the VPN service outage on January 24, as they lost numerous servers with such IP addresses. However, it's worth noting that the list of VPN services blocked by Roskomnadzor is constantly expanding, and by mid-January it numbered 439.
It's also worth noting that a major outage affecting the RuNet itself was recorded on January 24. According to Kommersant, users complained about issues with MTS, Megafon, and T2. Problems were also observed with mobile and home internet. The service "Sboi.rf" recorded numerous complaints about problems accessing Telegram and WhatsApp.
Denis Kuskov, CEO of TelecomDaily, expressed the opinion that outages have become too frequent, and it's unlikely the problem lies with the operators. "We haven't seen such a number of incidents in such a period of time before. Technical failures happen to any market player, and when they happen locally to just one company, it's more or less understandable. When such global problems arise, it could be either actions by Roskomnadzor, which has its own equipment on the operators' networks, or a large-scale failure originating from outside. The agency claims that everything that's being done is localized problems related to software incompatibilities or a loss of coordination. Operators may not even know how, what, and when Roskomnadzor does things. We certainly don't know. Whether to publicly discuss this or not is up to the agency," the expert stated.
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Source: 3dnews.ru
