You might think it sounds paranoid to say that something weird is happening in the DNS system in recent times.

But see what happens when you have a VPS in a location like Kazakhstan, and then try to access domains like this:

```

loki@indra-labs:~$ ping ppa.launchpad.net

PING ppa.launchpad.net(ppa.launchpadcontent.net (2620:2d:4000:1::3e)) 56 data bytes

^C

--- ppa.launchpad.net ping statistics ---

12 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 11266ms

loki@indra-labs:~$ ping 185.125.190.52

PING 185.125.190.52 (185.125.190.52) 56(84) bytes of data.

^C

--- 185.125.190.52 ping statistics ---

7 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 6146ms

```

(second address is launchpad.net )

I had to manually fix the `/etc/sources.list` to the one provided when you change your ubuntu software settings to "server for kazakhstan" and pasted it into place and voila, everything works like normal. No problems getting to russian IP addresses but somewhere along the line the backbone is dropping packets from almaty to Canonical's servers, probably in the USA.

To me, it smells like impending DNS root failure is in the offing in the near future. Hard Forked Internet... Massive partition, which will probably be called the New Iron Curtain and this time it's the "Allies" who are behind it.

It will happen within 5 years, maybe even next year the way things are going.