Not necessarily saying these are related, but given the current geopolitical situation, not beyond the realm of possibility that this is the result of 'something else' gone wrong.

https://www.google.com/search?&q=russia+internet+disconnection+test


On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 8:11 AM Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net> wrote:


> On Jan 30, 2024, at 17:00, Dmitry Sherman <dmitry@interhost.net> wrote:
>
> ru tld down?

Not exactly down…  they just busted their DNSSEC, or their domain got hijacked or something.  Bad DNSKEY records.

                                -Bill