Corporate IT MDM blocking nixery.dev and tazj.in because of RU server host?

[Nezteb]

Hi friends!

I found out today that my corporate IT department's MDM solution blocks the nixery.dev (and tazj.in) domains because the sites are hosted in Russia apparently.

Hosting Provider: Yandex.Cloud
IP Address: 51.250.48.185
Nameservers: ns1.namesystem.se, ns2.namesystem.se, ns3.namesystem.se
Whois Record: https://www.whois.com/whois/nixery.dev
Autonomous System Number: 200350
Autonomous System Organization: Yandex.Cloud LLC
Organization: Yandex.Cloud
Continent: Europe
Country: Russia
Registered Country: Russia
Location: Europe/Moscow

Hosting Provider: Moscow City Telephone Network
IP Address: 46.138.248.160
Nameservers: ns1.yandexcloud.net, ns2.yandexcloud.net
Whois Record: https://www.whois.com/whois/tazj.in
Autonomous System Number: 25513
Autonomous System Organization: PJSC Moscow city telephone network
Organization: Moscow City Telephone Network
City: Moscow
Continent: Europe
Country: Russia
Registered Country: Russia
Subdivisions: Moscow
Location: Europe/Moscow

In my case there's not much I can do since I can't run my own VPN on this machine.

I don't know if there's some Cloudflare/CDN magic to get around this sort of geo block, but I figured I'd report it just in case anyone else has this issue. 😭

[tazjin]

Hi!

Yes, my personal website is hosted on a NUC in my flat in Moscow, and nixery.dev is hosted on Yandex Cloud. I don't intend to change anything about this setup, or to put a Western-based proxy in front of the sites.

Back when I worked for Google, I could host the service for free on their infrastructure. As that's no longer the case, I've moved it to a provider that's more comfortable for me to use nowadays.

I recommend opening a ticket with your IT department about this, or hosting your own instance of Nixery at your company (it should not be too difficult to get it up & running).

[Nezteb]

Awesome thanks for the response! I'll close this for now. 😄