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Iran is back online
whynotlearn
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@Murv wanted to hear your thoughts regarding it given that you are from Iran.
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From the mastodon:
🫶 Welcome back #Iran! Metrics show a further rise in connectivity as mobile networks and other segments are reconnected to the global internet:
• Filternet remains in place but can be worked around
• WhatsApp now restricted, requiring circumvention
• Some users still offline
Also quick question but which VPS's are being able to be connected to and from Iran now?
Is every VPS back online which previously worked in Iran or what exactly, I think it would be interesting to know and I think that VPS's might be used for bypassing any circumvention. Not sure about the details themselves or the ground situation of Iran at the moment but just wanted to ask this question.
Anyways, this seems like a good news for the people of Iran. Hopefully the network stays this way and doesn't get cut again or something similar.
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Very nice.
Less bots and brute-force attacks when they were offline.
Nothing about the people of Iran, just facts. Same goes for Russia and China.
They're gradually restoring internet access, but it's kinda flaky right now.
Internet's mostly back for home and mobile internet but not for some datacenters.
Also seems like they're heavily throttling certain protocols such as SSH.
Sorry that was me
Welcome back!
Same goes for the USA. Nothing about the people of the USA, just facts.
Depends. Scales. Disconnect Iran from the internet? Globally - nobody will notice/care.
Disconnect USA from the internet? We will have a major problem. Everywhere.
welcome back weebs
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The only technical risk I see is that all the global DNS root servers might not be truly authoritative for the ccTLDs and when the SOAs time out they might refuse to serve any domain.
But other than it being a nuisance to lose all the ICANN domains, most of Europe at least would carry on just fine without the US. And I'm sure we find some creative way of spoofing the root servers if we couldn't rely on them to serve our ccTLDs.
Yeah, not an issue at all.
We all have our servers locally resolved, no need to rely on any ICANN domains.
Most governments use their ccTLD or .eu domains. If they still worked and .com didn't and it looked like the US would be offline for a long time, people would switch to non-US alternatives to .com pretty quickly.
Welcome back @Murv it's like you were never gone
So, the war must be over, or not?
where Iran $7/year deals?
Last I read, they were still just negotiating a 60 day ceasefire extension to previous ceasefire in April (which as far as I can tell both sides ignored). I don't think anything has been agreed or announced yet.
This so called war is about the biggest bullshit i've ever witnessed. I've pretty much stopped following like 6 weeks in. It's kind of like toddlers playing politics. Well, if we assume those toddlers to be retarded and into market manipulation. The fact that this is seemingly overall accepted as normal is pretty much a statement to the complete and utter infantilization of society. I've hardly ever liked or agreed with politics but this is just plainly post rational and there's no point in trying to make sense of it.
Yeah, it's still warm war. Hopefully @Murv could give insight on Iran's leadership confidence
Politics never change. It hasn't even been 5 years since the last time. There's multiple Netflix shows about insider trading
Yeah, they kind of don't but there's still an overall tendency. I mean you don't even have to come up with a semi-coherent reasoning anymore these days. You could pretty much base your policy on spaghetti monster and given you have the right backup people would nod or at least largely ignore the gaping holes and while insider trading might be nothing new basically doing it openly as the reason behind wiping out countries (and a good part of the world economy on top of it) is kind of a new dimension. There's literally no point in all the back and forth (with the imaginary seize fires, negotiations and whatnot) than some inner circle multiplying their money and everyone with half a brain knows it.
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Is it true they murdered Gandalf the Grey?
@Murv just want to ask because of curiosity but does something like cloudflare work within Iran? and are there any vps's which are hosted outside of Iran which can be accessed from inside Iran. I am not sure how censored the state is from the inside.
Could you tell us more about the situation within Iran itself at the moment for the average person out there in terms of censorship and other factors?
Is iran an intranet in the sense that I am seeing things like if you are in Iran you can only access the servers/datacenters vps's or ip's within Iran itself. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong though but yes, I wish to know the ground situation of Iran at the moment. (in terms of censorship)
Gandalf the Gay?
I'm far from an expert on this but i'm pretty sure Iran isn't North Korea
Yes I think you are overall right and the situation is more permissive than in my scenario/NK but still, iran's internet had gone completely blacked down and has come back up. I would like some more details about what an average iranian can access or not and the firewalls. Iran is a bit notorious for their censorship after north korea though.
Also speaking of this, @Murv has the govt stopped using AI speech before you call any number which tries to record it or something similar which was happening sometime ago, is it still happening? How is the telecommunications thing at Iran at the moment too?
Yes, people are also creating V2Ray proxy setups using CF workers and CDN.
It does work and the speeds are fine (there's the occasional throttling on CF IPs thou)
I can SSH into most of my LowEnd fleet but SSH is throttled to a crawl.
But ICMP does work and it's not throttled. I can do ICMP tunneling just fine.
Connectivity on mobile and home internet is basically back to the pre-war state but with some throttling at times.
Iranian datacenters (except few ones) still have no internet for whatever reason.
Uh... I'm tired of playing this cat and mouse game with the government to bypass their censorship and wish that I had a kind and caring Japanese wife who gave me Japanese passport.
During the shutdown yes, it was basically an intranet of Iranian sites, but you did occasionally get the accidentally whitelisted foreign IP
I wasn't aware of that ever happening here.
Pretty sure most calls are recorded regardless of them announcing it or not.
During the war domestic calls and SMS did always work, as for international, SMS did not work but calls did