twitter.com routing to Russian ISP
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28-03-2022 1:53 PM - edited 28-03-2022 1:55 PM
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Hi,
Just noticed that, on my broadband, twitter.com is routing to mts-internet.net (a Russian ISP) and then looping. The website is obviously not working. It works fine on my Plusnet mobile 4G though
Any idea what is going on? I have a theory based on routes leaking from Russia but who knows...
$ traceroute twitter.com
traceroute: Warning: twitter.com has multiple addresses; using 104.244.42.1
traceroute to twitter.com (104.244.42.1), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) 8.239 ms 7.860 ms 6.138 ms
2 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 7.406 ms 6.825 ms 8.734 ms
3 251.core.plus.net (195.166.130.251) 15.027 ms 15.682 ms 13.902 ms
4 84.93.253.91 (84.93.253.91) 15.795 ms 16.394 ms 15.913 ms
5 195.99.125.144 (195.99.125.144) 16.146 ms
195.99.125.140 (195.99.125.140) 16.539 ms 16.818 ms
6 peer2-et-0-0-4.slough.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.252.118) 30.128 ms
peer7-et-7-0-4.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net (62.172.103.164) 41.003 ms
peer7-et-3-1-1.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.252.164) 16.596 ms
7 * * *
8 tct-cr02-ae2.192.ams.mts-internet.net (195.34.53.81) 25.888 ms
anc-cr01-be5.204.ff.mts-internet.net (195.34.53.225) 32.262 ms
tct-cr02-ae2.192.ams.mts-internet.net (195.34.53.81) 26.119 ms
9 * anc-cr03-ae5.131.ff.mts-internet.net (212.188.42.18) 77.125 ms *
10 * a433-cr02-be2.77.msk.mts-internet.net (212.188.28.150) 75.181 ms 66.104 ms
11 * m9-cr03-ae11.77.msk.mts-internet.net (212.188.42.125) 72.175 ms
a197-cr01-ae6.77.msk.mts-internet.net (212.188.2.190) 68.286 ms
12 a433-cr02-be11.77.msk.mts-internet.net (212.188.42.126) 66.155 ms
m9-cr03-ae11.77.msk.mts-internet.net (212.188.42.125) 67.749 ms
...
Fixed! Go to the fix.
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28-03-2022 1:59 PM
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...and now it is working again. Someone obviously fixed their mistake
28-03-2022 4:47 PM - edited 28-03-2022 4:50 PM
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Twitter Routing Issue in UK? | Hacker News (ycombinator.com)
... Something odd going on with network routing to Twitter in the UK right now. From a BT Broadband home connection, traffic seems to be flowing via an "mts-internet.net" addresses listed in Moscow. I've tried from a VPN and can access Twitter just fine. Downdectector shows a peak in reports of issues too - https://downdetector.co.uk/status/twitter/.
... Noticed in Slovenia & France too!
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28-03-2022 5:10 PM
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Thanks!
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28-03-2022 6:21 PM
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Strange happenings in Soviet cybersphere ... now why am I suspicious? After this ...
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29-03-2022 3:32 PM
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This article:
indicates that it was a hamfisted attempt to block twitter inside Russia.
However, the article also states that most ISP's prevented their twitter traffic from being mis-directed to Russia.
If the article is correct, BT group could and should improve the integrity of their BGP tables to mitigate against future mis-routings deliberate or otherwise.
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