I can pull up yandex just fine.
Yandex has a large office in Amsterdam. Not sure where its all served from but they have offices in 12 countries.
yandex.com resolves to mother russia
% This is the RIPE Database query service. % The objects are in RPSL format. % % The RIPE Database is subject to Terms and Conditions. % See https://apps.db.ripe.net/docs/HTML-Terms-And-Conditions % Note: this output has been filtered. % To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag. % Information related to '77.88.55.0 - 77.88.55.255' % Abuse contact for '77.88.55.0 - 77.88.55.255' is 'abuse@yandex.ru' inetnum: 77.88.55.0 - 77.88.55.255 netname: YANDEX-77-88-55 status: ASSIGNED PA country: RU descr: Yandex enterprise network admin-c: YNDX1-RIPE tech-c: YNDX1-RIPE remarks: INFRA-AW org: ORG-YA1-RIPE mnt-by: YANDEX-MNT source: RIPE created: 2012-10-12T12:22:03Z last-modified: 2022-04-05T15:29:50ZThat doesn’t mean the servers are physically located in Russia. It just means they are controlled by an organisation that considers Russia their primary country.
whois $(dig -t A yandex.com +short | head -1)
I’m sure they have sufficient infrastructure to route elsewhere if Russian servers are inaccessible. I doubt anyway that servers in the rest of the world are typically served from Russia since that would be inefficient.
It doesn’t ‘resolve’ to Russia. The IP was allocated to yandex who’s record for that block is listed in Russia. Any IP addres in that /24 can literally be used anywhere in their infrastructure anywhere in the world.
I have a VPS for example that RIPE shows is allocated to a company in Germany but the physical server sits in a datacenter on the west coast of the US.
