Russian MoD website blocked for non-Russian IPs

nowahe · on Dec 17, 2021

It appears [1] that Russia's Ministry of Defense website is getting blocked for all IPs outside of Russia.

This seems deliberate as the request's answer is a HTTP 418 :

  $ curl -v "https://eng.mil.ru/"
  *   Trying 82.202.189.138:443...
  * Connected to eng.mil.ru (82.202.189.138) port 443 (#0)
  [...]
  > GET / HTTP/2
  > Host: eng.mil.ru
  > user-agent: curl/7.77.0
  > accept: */*
  >
  * Connection state changed (MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS == 128)!
  < HTTP/2 418
  < date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:24:13 GMT
  < content-length: 0
  < server: Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
  <
  * Connection #0 to host eng.mil.ru left intact

[1] https://twitter.com/tom_bullock_/status/1471867831629266951