Russian Government Roskomnadzor Blocking AWS Login Servers

File:Titans-icon.png Russian Government Roskomnadzor Blocking Amazon Web Services (AWS) Servers

The Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) is currently blocking large ranges of IP addresses including one of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) login servers for Planetary Annihilation:

• https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/in-effort-to-shut-down-telegram-russia-blocks-amazon-google-network-addresses/

eg AWS 13.56.0.0/14 is currently blocked:

• https://github.com/zapret-info/z-i/raw/master/dump.csv

File:Gold-rank-icon.png Temporary Local Hosts Workaround

Add the following to your local hosts file:

52.9.58.101 4.uberent.com
52.9.58.101 uberent.com
52.24.156.38 mm.planetaryannihilation.net

That IP address may change later this year.

On Windows add to:

C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts

Verify in a command prompt the results of:

ping 4.uberent.com
ping uberent.com
ping mm.planetaryannihilation.net

ping will use your local hosts file to display the following: (ignore the no reply)

Pinging 4.uberent.com [52.9.58.101]

Pinging uberent.com [52.9.58.101]

Pinging mm.planetaryannihilation.net [52.24.156.38]