realtime.ably.io is blocked in Russia

[kronos]

Hello. As far as I understand by default ably-ios library uses realtime.ably.io host which is now blocked by "Roskomnadzor" in Russia. Because of it our app stop operating. Is there any possibility to add another IP address to the domain or initialize the library with a proxy?

Thanks.

[funkyboy]

@kronos We have a number of fallback hosts. Are they all blocked too? If not, the library should automatically fall back to a working one.

Also, out of curiosity, can you please try setting a proxy in the iOS settings of the device and see if that works?

[kronos]

@funkyboy Thank you, some of them aren't blocked but for unknown reasons library doesn't use them now. We'll look into, I describe the result (for another happy russian users) and close the issue.

[kronos]

Good news everyone, Russian goverment decided to unblock ably. Anyway to avoid this issue in the future make sure you turn on additional hosts in you code:

let options = ARTClientOptions(key: ablyKey)
// ...
options.fallbackHostsUseDefault = true