[Outages-discussion] [outages] rt.com

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I believe this is related to an aggressive DDOS attack by the “IT army”.

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regards,
/vrode

> On Mar 2, 2022, at 01:50, Bill Woodcock via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:
> 
> 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=2a4bc50397731140d76f168f3ff457949f4
> 
> https://www.uptrends.com/tools/uptime?toolRequestGuid=3c1bd632-7ec7-4420-823d-199fadcb315d
> 
> Does anyone have any insight into what mechanisms are being used to block RT?
> 
>                                -Bill
> 
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