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inetnum: 77.88.55.0 - 77.88.55.255
netname: YANDEX-77-88-55
status: ASSIGNED PA
country: RU
descr: Yandex enterprise network
admin-c: YNDX1-RIPE
tech-c: YNDX1-RIPE
remarks: INFRA-AW
org: ORG-YA1-RIPE
mnt-by: YANDEX-MNT
source: RIPE
created: 2012-10-12T12:22:03Z
last-modified: 2022-04-05T15:29:50Z
That doesn’t mean the servers are physically located in Russia. It just means they are controlled by an organisation that considers Russia their primary country.
It doesn’t ‘resolve’ to Russia. The IP was allocated to yandex who’s record for that block is listed in Russia. Any IP addres in that /24 can literally be used anywhere in their infrastructure anywhere in the world.
I have a VPS for example that RIPE shows is allocated to a company in Germany but the physical server sits in a datacenter on the west coast of the US.
Yandex has a large office in Amsterdam. Not sure where its all served from but they have offices in 12 countries.
yandex.com resolves to mother russia
That doesn’t mean the servers are physically located in Russia. It just means they are controlled by an organisation that considers Russia their primary country.
whois $(dig -t A yandex.com +short | head -1)It doesn’t ‘resolve’ to Russia. The IP was allocated to yandex who’s record for that block is listed in Russia. Any IP addres in that /24 can literally be used anywhere in their infrastructure anywhere in the world.
I have a VPS for example that RIPE shows is allocated to a company in Germany but the physical server sits in a datacenter on the west coast of the US.