It is now redirecting to a page that is owned by 5oh.ru, this is not the first time this happened btw, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43490423.
Sad to see this happens as it performs much better than archive.org
Ask HN: Is archive.today/is/md/etc. compromised?
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Re: Ask HN: Is archive.today/is/md/etc. compromised?
#2archive.today, archive.is, and archive.md are all working correctly for me now.
Re: Ask HN: Is archive.today/is/md/etc. compromised?
#3Still working fine here.
I see you have noticed this has happened before, I did recall the same when I saw this ... the bottom post talks about too many requests - if not your many visits, probably shared IP pool or something.
Re: Ask HN: Is archive.today/is/md/etc. compromised?
#4works for me, would be interesting to see what IP addresses it is redirecting for you, hopefully you are not using a malicious/compromised DNS server?
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#5works for me, would be interesting to see what IP addresses it is redirecting for you, hopefully you are not using a malicious/compromised DNS server?
VPN's DNS server from reputable service from here https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/. I should have tried visiting this website using Tor browser too at that time, archive.today doesn't even load for me right now using my VPN...
Re: Ask HN: Is archive.today/is/md/etc. compromised?
#6I remember reading this may be a rate limiter or DDoS protection behaviour
Re: Ask HN: Is archive.today/is/md/etc. compromised?
#7It always gave me a sketchy vibe, I try to rely on the Internet Archive whenever possible.
(Some publishers whitelist their bot, since it is used for scholarly citations -- I'm not clear how a reviewer would review to an archive.is link and despite having been out of academia for a decade, old habits die hard.)
Also, how are you accessing the site? Are you sure the error stems from the destination?
I've never had what you describe happen but I have had some... interesting... errors pop up when doing OSINT in Tor.
(Ex: a SSL_ERROR_UNSAFE_NEGOTIATION when attempting to access the copy of a search warrant that was served on a state senator from a government website specifically set up to make such documents available.)
Re: Ask HN: Is archive.today/is/md/etc. compromised?
#8archive.today's DNS is unreliable garbage.
They take issue with Cloudflare not sending EDNS Client Subnet and lately I've noticed they've taken issue with NextDNS' anonymized EDNS.
Gives shady data-collection vibes.
Re: Ask HN: Is archive.today/is/md/etc. compromised?
#9archive.today's DNS is unreliable garbage. They take issue with Cloudflare not sending EDNS Client Subnet and lately I've noticed they've taken issue with NextDNS' anonymized EDNS. Gives shady data-collection vibes.
And instead of just rejecting queries they return weird unrelated IPs out of spite.