Russian Government Roskomnadzor Blocking AWS Login Servers

Russian Government Roskomnadzor Blocking Amazon Web Services (AWS) Servers

NO LONGER BLOCKED

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

Temporary Local Hosts Workaround

Add the following to your local hosts file:

On Windows add to:

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