I can confirm that WARP service doesn’t work in Russia since last week.
Cloudflare WARP VPN service is not officially blocked in Russia. cloudflareportal.com is now resolving for me to IP 104.19.153.125, which is now in Russia’s communication watchdog blocklist since 2019 because of hosted gambling site.
So, I request some Cloudflare team member like cloonan to simply change that IP manually and check it for blocking to make happy all the russian customers of this amazing service.
I m not aware too if any VPN restrictions are in place in Russia. Neither I m aware of any governmental restriction to CF services. WARP is using anycast routing, so your ISP will decide which colo to choose from CF’s advertised BGP alternate routes. Usually it chooses the shortest path (less hops), but takes into account other measurements too. Certain IP(ranges) might be blocked by your ISP that are in the alternate route list in the BGP advertisement. 1.1.1.1 is just one of the DNS resolvers of CF. It has nothing to do with establishment of Wireguard tunnel between your WARP client and the colo. Right now, I m connected to the neighbor country’s CF colo.
In a nutshell: until CF keeps on anycast routing instead of unicast, such issues will/might happen.
Some russian providers allow to use 1.1.1.1 WARP only with DNS protocol: WARP in Settings instead of DoH and DoT which can be not operational.
Also, you can use this service in some (other) networks just switching to Zero Trust. It’s more complicated but reachable for most users.
As a bonus you get a centralized family device management and more perks.