The slaps of Russia at Google and CloudFlare
In Russia, the company Rostelecom proposes a ban on the use of Google's DNS servers and CloudFlare. A few days earlier, the country blocked several VPN services. Here's what happens
According to the news agency RIA Novosti , the Russian telecommunications company Rostelecom has proposed a ban on the use, for its branches, of DNS servers (the domain name system, the one that assigns "names" to the numerical strings of IP addresses) of Google and CloudFlare.
THE MESSAGE ON TELEGRAM
RIA Novosti talks about a document published on a Telegram channel – whose authenticity has been proven by the agency – in which the director of the Rostelecom division for monitoring and management of communication networks asks "to give instructions to all divisions concerned to prohibit the use of Google (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4), CloudFlare (1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1) and the service of issuing DNS addresses to subscribers with BRAS / DHCP ".
RUSSIA AGAINST GOOGLE AND APPLE
In early September, the Russian mass communications supervisory authority, Roskomnadzor, said it could impose a fine on Google and Apple if they do not remove the app developed by Alexei Navalny, the president's best-known opponent, from their respective stores. Russian Vladimir Putin. Navalny was arrested for probation violations and is being held in very harsh conditions; his political movement was outlawed in the country.
THE GOAL OF RUSSIA
Sky TG24 explains that the ban on access to Google's and CloudFlare's DNS servers, beyond the official reasons, rather aims to “prevent the bypassing of blocks to sites and apps that are banned in Russia”.
BLOCKING VPNs
Recently, however, Roskomnadzor blocked access to various VPN services (a virtual private network, useful for protecting your data traffic and bypassing Internet site blocks) such as NordVPN and Express VPN.
Officially, the tightening on VPNs was decided because these networks would make it easier to access child pornography content or drug trading sites. In reality, VPNs represent an obstacle to the Russian authorities' control practices on the online movement of the population.
In the coming days in Russia, legislative elections will be held for the renewal of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/russia-google-cloudflare-server-dns/ on Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:49:06 +0000.