Bit-torrent tracker Demonoid blocked by Russian

According to the information received by TorrentFreak and the tests we carried out, we can tell that Demonoid was unavailable to Russian users for at least one day. It seems that for many other countries it acts as usual - Demonoid works just fine.

Demonoid, today one of the largest existing torrent sites, is hosted to the west of Russia in its neighboring Ukraine, although the relations between the two countries are not quite good-neighborly now.

In the last 24 hours, he receives a flurry of messages that Demonoid users in Russia can no longer access the site. Referring to some of our own Russian acquaintances and trying through a server located in St. Petersburg, we were able to confirm that, at least so far, access to the Demonoid from Russia is impossible. It is reported that the problem began a day ago.
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The results of the traceroute command running from different locations across the country towards the Demonoid IP (62.149.24.66) show that all of them end at ColoCall , the largest data center in Ukraine, just one step away from the Demonoid servers.

TorrentFreak checks from both European and Russian IP addresses were routed through ColoCall's IP 62.149.2.108 - at this point the Russian test was blocked, while the European one completed flawlessly. The checks of the Russian BitTorrent user, made at our request, confirmed that they demanded to use a proxy both for the site and for the tracker in order to gain access.

It is hoped that blocking is a temporary and technical problem; but, of course, Demonoid has blocked whole countries before. TorrentFreak contacted ColoCall, but so far we have not received any response.

We will update this blog post when further information becomes available.

Update: There are several reports that Ukrainian IP addresses may also be blocked.

Translator's note: this TorrentFreak blog post contains a bit more information than the incident report , which yesterday appeared promptly in Habrahabr; so I thought it was not too much to translate it, and translated.