Russian MoD website blocked for non-Russian IPs

  • 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