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Ask HN: Archive.is Captcha Problems Lately?

• alexolog 3y ago
  Captcha loop here as well. Both from FF and an ungoogled Chromium with no add ons that I keep just for these situations. DNS is the unsecured quad9 9.9.9.10 Secure DNS is likewise https://dns10.quad9.net/dns-query https://dns10.quad9.net/dns-query Console shows error 429
  • alexolog 3y ago
    And sure enough, if I disable secure DNS and change the DNS server to my ISP's, it works. Assholes.
• plssy 3y ago
  not a technical person, how can I fix this? turned off secure DNS, didn't work, changed IP to Google's, that disabled my WiFi...
  • plssy 3y ago
    i don't use cloudfare..i think..don't know what that is..just my wifi
  • plssy 3y ago
    strangely sometimes it randomly works once.
• retrocryptid 3y ago
  Yup. Me too. On Firefox.
  • Abrownn 3y ago
    Confirming Firefox issue here too
    • 1980phipsi 3y ago
      I have the issue on Firefox, but not on Chrome.
• riedel 3y ago
  Currently no luck on android using both brave and chrome.
• IndoorPatio 3y ago
  Yes, seems broken.
• defrost 3y ago
  Check your DNS, there are issues using Cloudflare to reach archive.{is | li | today | etc } Google DNS and others work where Cloudflare does not.
  • dredmorbius 3y ago
    Interesting ... Using Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) vs. Google (8.8.8.8) I get different IP resolution: for u in archive.ph archive.is archive.li archive.vn archive.fo archive.md; do echo ">>> ${u} <<<"; host -t A $u 1.1.1.1; host -t A $u 8.8.8.8; done Results: >>> archive.ph <<< Using domain server: Name: 1.1.1.1 Address: 1.1.1.1#53 Aliases: archive.ph has address 192.210.214.166 Using domain server: Name: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Aliases: archive.ph has address 23.137.248.133 >>> archive.is <<< Using domain server: Name: 1.1.1.1 Address: 1.1.1.1#53 Aliases: archive.is has address 198.23.187.186 Using domain server: Name: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Aliases: archive.is has address 23.137.248.133 >>> archive.li <<< Using domain server: Name: 1.1.1.1 Address: 1.1.1.1#53 Aliases: archive.li has address 192.210.214.166 Using domain server: Name: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Aliases: archive.li has address 23.137.248.133 >>> archive.vn <<< Using domain server: Name: 1.1.1.1 Address: 1.1.1.1#53 Aliases: archive.vn has address 192.210.214.166 Using domain server: Name: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Aliases: archive.vn has address 23.137.248.133 >>> archive.fo <<< Using domain server: Name: 1.1.1.1 Address: 1.1.1.1#53 Aliases: archive.fo has address 192.210.214.166 Using domain server: Name: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Aliases: archive.fo has address 23.137.248.133 >>> archive.md <<< Using domain server: Name: 1.1.1.1 Address: 1.1.1.1#53 Aliases: archive.md has address 192.210.214.166 Using domain server: Name: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Aliases: archive.md has address 23.137.248.133 Cloudflare: Fix your shit.
    • jgrahamc 3y ago
      Nothing to fix. We are responding with what archive.* sends to us. They choose to send us incorrect data. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
• aendruk 3y ago
  Yep, reCAPTCHA is satisfied but then archive.{is,ph,today} still just loops 429 Too Many Requests. Not sure how they arrived at that conclusion; reading HN I probably hit the service about once per day. Firefox ETP strict, CenturyLink residential
• WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
  In case anyone comes back to this. I noticed I get redirected to the archive.is domain and that's when I wind up in a captcha loop. When I get captcha'd, the archive.is resolves to 198.23.187.186 I cleared my DNS server cache and got new IPs for archive.today and archive.ph but the same address for archive.is. I tried the OPs link, got redirected to .is and got captchas. I cleared DNS server cache again and got 89.253.237.217 for .is (along with more new IPs for .ph and .today). No captchas.
• 00deadbeef 3y ago
  Been having this issue for months. In addition, Safari can't connect to the server at all using iCloud Private Relay. Seems like an OTT security config.