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We're having a mail problem with the domains yandex.ru, mail.ru, and yandex.com. Mark is looking into the best way to fix the problem, but until then, people with email addresses at those domains may have problems getting mail from us, including comment notifications. We apologize for the inconvenience!

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Given the crosspost to LJ broke down, could it be DW is now somehow banned in Russia?

Just a run-of-the-mill spammer. There are ways to ask Dreamwidth to send emails, and someone went at it a bit exuberantly and targeted those domains. The feature they were abusing has been fixed and the accounts banned, but it will probably take a little time for our reputation to settle down with those mail domains.

I think that it may be same thing with crossposter. LJ error message (which DW saves in the crosspost failure notification) says "Too may unsuccessful login attempts from this IP address".
May be there are some bunch of accounts which were deleted from LJ but crosspost to them wasn't disabled in DW.

Thanks

denise and

mark for keeping us informed. Wishing you and yours all bounties in the New Year.

I'm at lonestar.org and am also not getting notifications, but I'm not sure if that's you or their own SPF misconfiguration.

Edit: never mind, now I've read the comments I can see this is unlikely to be related.

Edited 2019-12-30 07:40 (UTC)

No I don't think so. I've maintained my account on LJ and last week, out of the blue I started getting the error message you noted everytime I attempted to crosspost to LJ from DW.

These problems are made specifically so that users from Russia, Belarus and the former USSR in general do not use dreamwidth.org

Problem is that it is not your or mine account problem. It is someone else's account problem. But LJ bans posting from entire IP address, so effectively blocks crossposting from all DW accounts.

Thanks for that. I realise now.

dreamwidth.org is banned in Russia. because people left the controlled LJ. You can access DW only via VPN

No, it is not. Only few specific pages are banned.

But there are some providers in Russia who are still not able to make deep packet inspections for https traffic. Those providers have to ban entire DW.

But I access not-banned DW journals from several Moscow providers on regular basis.

I think that if DW team would analyze access logs, there would be a lot of traffic from russian IPs.

Also, anyone can download RosComNadzor database from github and check it.

nonsense

Similar problems between Russian hosting companies and mail.ru happen on a regular basis, and it's almost impossible to deal with it.

Are you planning on doing a post specifically about the crossposting problem as well?

So those things are a side-effect of Putinist surveillance actions against the wider world?

I don't think so. Russian government is much more concerned about internal affairs, then the "wider world". Site blocking have nothing to do wit surveillance, it is just censorship.

Not nonsense. Clearly. We've heard about Putin's "sovereign (Russian) internet" scheme from multiple news sources over this past half-year. We know the legislation was passed, again via multiple news sources.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/russia-internet-1.5015768
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50902496
https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=Russia+internet+test

Edited 2019-12-30 14:27 (UTC)

Censorship, not survellance.

The latter leads to the former. So, we're splitting hairs here.

"Kazakhstan is a civilised country now, pretty much like US and A. Especially considering the latest reforms that allowed womens to travel on the inside of buses and the fact that gay people no longer have to wear blue hats.... Why are we laughing?"
(Borat, from Letterman's show)

Oh, sources, yeah. Proved to be true.
Btw, I got your answer via yandex mail. Nothing wrong with it.

When I went to see what the problem was with LJ, I had to reset my password, because it wasn't quite as secure (not enough numbers/weird characters) as LJ's new requirements? I'm wondering if LJ started requiring new passwords and DW crossposters (like me) didn't notice, and now ~~they hates us my precious~~ LJ is sulking.

(So I've been manually posting to LJ... a comments-disabled update that has a link to my DW post. *blows a single (1) party kazoo*

Wait a second!
Does it mean that DPI is able to distinguish URIs inside an _encrypted_ SSL stream?

Crossposting is working for me now.

There is SNI extension, which goes unencrypted.

Dude, that's shooting proverbial sparrows with a howitzer. The amount of DW users among Russians is miniscule, and certainly not worth the effort to target them specifically.

And there is more: most Russians who jumped to DW during last LJ "improvements" are smart enough to avoid mail.ru and Yandex mail entirely.

The crossposting problem isn't us! People who are having the issue will need to contact LiveJournal and let them know they're blocking legit use.

I'm surprised to read this. When I raised a query I received this answer:
"Dreamwidth added some new servers to improve services, however for security purposes (after all, Livejournal hadn't 'met' them before!), Livejournal automatically blocked them. The devs are trying to work out a good way to solve the blocking, but it may take a few weeks (security is important and we don't want Livejournal to continue blocking us anymore than you do!). Once it's fixed, there'll be an announcement in dw_maintenance and you can retry any failed cross-posts."
Others have also received this answer.

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