The largest failure in Runet in history

The largest failure in RuNet in history. Users fear consequencesViy. Users across Russia find themselves in the midst of a massive disruption to the Russian segment of the Internet, known as RuNet. Significant disruptions in the functioning of services and websites in the .RU domain zone have caused enormous inconvenience among Internet users and raised concerns about the safety and reliability of the online space.

According to reports in Russian media, the main source of the problem lies in a malfunction DNSSEC – the protocol, ensuring the authenticity and integrity of data on the network. This unusual phenomenon has raised serious questions about when the problem will be fixed and what its consequences might be.

The Coordination Center for .RU/.РФ domains confirms that the current failure in the Runet is related to the DNSSEC protocol. Despite the fact that work is already underway to fix the problem, many users continue to experience difficulties accessing important online resources.

Reasons for failure of .RU .РФ domains – experiments of the special services of the Russian Federation with DNS server services

Lawyers from the Human Rights Project “Network freedoms” suggested that the reason for the failure of sites in the .ru domain zone could be experiments to create a national domain name service.

Russian authorities previously expressed intentions to transfer all users in the country to a national DNS server, and this could cause problems faced by web resource owners and users.

A failure in RuNet calls into question the security and reliability of the Internet in Russia

The scale of the failure on the RuNet calls into question the security and reliability of Russia’s online infrastructure. The largest outage in the history of the RuNet has been going on for more than an hour. The government services portal is unavailable in most regions of the country, Moscow residents are experiencing difficulties using bank cards, and the largest online retailer Ozon reported difficulties with processing orders.

Losses from a failure of this level could easily exceed a billion US dollars. And it is not yet clear how long it will take the Russian intelligence services to fix the glitch in RuNet – failure of the DNSSEC protocol in the .RU and .РФ zones, which will only increase losses and lost profits.