According to ZDNet reports, the Russian government announced on Monday that it completed a series of tests, managed to push the country off the global Internet .
Testing began last week were many days involving the Russian government agencies, local Internet service providers and local Internet company in Russia, aims to test whether the case of Russia's national Internet infrastructure RuNet can not access the global DNS system and external Internet normal operation.
Russian government at a news conference, said the experiment was a success, but it did not disclose any technical details about the test and its composition, but mentioned several test program connection is disconnected, including analog hostile cyber attacks from abroad program. Now know only external Internet traffic was re-routed inside Russia, the Russian RuNet effectively become the world's largest internal network.
Relevant government official said: "Facts have proved that, in general, authorities and telecommunications operators are ready to respond effectively to possible risks and threats, and to ensure that Russia's Internet and unified telecommunications network uptime."
Russia had proposed a "sovereign Internet" bill to cut off its access to dangerous thought content. Internet sovereignty Act, you must install special equipment tracking software in Russia and tens of thousands of key Internet sites, these devices will send data to a central monitoring agency, the agency has authority to re-route traffic, may be threatened in the country, or in the event of foreign cyber attacks and the rest of RuNet web isolated.
The test disconnect from the Internet is considered to be in a specific implementation of this "sovereign Internet."