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Ask HN: What's Up with Archive.today?

6 points by nobody9999 ↗ HN
Archive.[today|is|ph|il|md|etc.] has been unresponsive for the last few days.

I've searched around a bit but haven't seen any reporting as to what's up with the site(s).

Does anyone have any information about this? Speculation? Wild rumors?

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nobody9999
I'd add that every so often I get a "Welcome to nginx" page instead of just a time out.
al_borland
I used .ph earlier today and it worked.
cpach
Works fine for me. (Sweden, tried on my smartphone using LTE connection.)
nobody9999
It appears that whatever issue was impacting Archive.today has been resolved (at least for me).

Thanks for the suggestions. It seems odd that I (presumably via GeoIP location) was continually resolving archive.today sites to non-functional IP addresses, especially since I live in a very densely populated region.

Then again, I'd expect that other than Bender[0] and myself, not very many folks run their own recursive resolvers.

Again, thanks for the suggestions. Although some wild speculation/rumors could have been fun ("archive.today admins abducted by aliens!" or "Malware plot by beer-making Belgian monks takes down parts of archive.today infrastructure." or "Zip bombs make archive.today unresponsive!", etc.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042612