Users of various Russian providers last days Note the inability to connect to the anonymous TOR network, when entering the network through various providers and mobile communication operators. Mostly blocking is observed in Moscow when connected through such providers like MTS, Rostelecom, Akado , Tele2, Yota, Beeline and MegaFon. Separate messages about blocking are also coming from users from St. Petersburg, Ufa and Yekaterinburg. In Tyumen, through Beeline and Rostelecom, the connection to the TOR passes without problems.
Locking manifests itself when you try to connect to any Tor directory servers (Directory Authority), which are network connection points, are responsible for authentication and transmitting a list of gateways to the user processing. It is also possible to establish connections using OBFS4 and Snowflake transports, but it is easy to connect to manually registering hidden bridge nodes requested via Bridges.TorProject. ORG or email. Including Unavailable host ajax.aspnetcdn.com in CDN Microsoft, used in transport MEEK-asure.
It is noteworthy that yesterday Roskomnadzor announced a blocking in the Russian Federation of more than six VPN providers – Cloudflare Warp, Betternet, Lantern, X-VPN, Tachyon VPN and PrivateTunnel, in addition to the previously blocked VyprvPN, OperaVPN, Hola VPN, ExpressVPN, Keepsolid VPN Unlimited, NORD VPN, Speedify VPN and IPvanish VPN.