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NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable [fixed]
- xlixl 2y ago[flagged]
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- BluSyn 2y ago[flagged]
- exe34 2y agoGiven the thoughtless cuts to the workforce and the arbitrary bureaucracy to get anything done/paid for that they've introduced, I'd say the prior probability towards it being their fault should be fairly high. I'm waiting for evidence that it isn't their fault.
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- raphman 2y agoIt seems someone shut down all NIH DNS servers. Right now the NIH website, PubMed and BLAST are up, but not resolvable. Cloudflare's 1.0.0.1 DNS resolver seems to still have cached the records. Google and most others I tried did not. This probably explains why some people on social media could access the sites while others couldn't. Workaround via /etc/hosts : 156.40.212.210 nih.gov 96.17.96.9 www.nih.gov 34.107.134.59 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 130.14.250.10 ftp.wip.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 130.14.250.10 ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 130.14.29.110 blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov EDIT: While ns.nih.gov, ns2.nih.gov, and ns3.nih.gov do not respond, the nameserver at lhcns1.nlm.nih.gov (130.14.55.72) does. Also see https://tldr.nettime.org/@ww/114089972404202687 https://tldr.nettime.org/@ww/114089972404202687
- anotherpaul 2y agoThank you for writing this down. Might become relevant if they don't solve that before Monday. One can only hope this is not intentional.
- imhoguy 2y agoCool, thanks! While the chaos monkey is at work, the true ARPANET spirit is still alive!
- the_real_cher 2y agoNice work!
- stwrzn 2y agoThey were not shut down. Confirm yourself using: dig +tcp @$(dig +short ns.nih.gov @a.ns.gov) www.nih.gov
- raphman 2y agoYes. As noted elsewhere in this thread, they still respond to TCP requests. I did not know this at the time of writing.
- nektro 2y agowell this is.. uh.. not good
- jjallen 2y agoFYI it has been like this for at least sixteen hours as last night I was trying to read something there too and it wouldn’t work. I hope there’s backups somewhere. I definitely wouldn’t feel bad about using non sanctioned sources at this point.
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- letthegamesbegn 2y agoThe whole country is getting much more unreliable. Feels especially bad when I'm reading this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Nations_Fail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Nations_Fail
- anonzzzies 2y agoI'm not fromm the US, but these servers are not mirrored, at least to have the information? Or is that not allowed?
- maelito 2y agoTrust in the US is failing day after day.
- fhd2 2y agoAs someone in Europe, I'm honestly starting to wonder if the companies whose tech I oversee aren't better off eliminating reliance on US tech companies. Hard to tell what they'll do, being strong armed by Musk and Trump, or even just trying to win their favour. With server hardware, I can't think of real alternatives, at least x86. But then again, I guess they'll just continue to work once bought :P Cloud hosting and PaaS: We have some major, reliable hosters (Hetzner, OVH etc), but it's a bit lower level than AWS or Heroku. This part I'm pondering the most, since I mostly want to use stuff you can easily find freelancers to work on. With anything closer to self hosting, that's a bit tricky. Stuff like Google Workspace, Notion etc is non-trivial but possible to replace with stuff like Fastmail and the Atlassian suite. Not an "as good" replacement, but a workable one. I still feel a bit paranoid even thinking about this, and I'll ponder it some more before I act. But I can't help but wonder how many European CTOs are in the same boat after the oval office meeting with Zelenski. Kinda brought it home to me that the US is a very different country now, and using anything made there is no longer the no brainer it used to be. If the actual government can't resist their commands, private companies most definitely can't. And with a trade war looming, it'd be easy to just take competitors that rely on AWS et al off the market quickly, spy on competitors in Google Workplace, and stuff like that.
- xena 2y agoLook into Scaleway!
- _cenw 2y agoWe got a few OpenStack-based clouds. https://www.open-telekom-cloud.com/en https://www.open-telekom-cloud.com/en https://www.stackit.de/en/ https://www.stackit.de/en/
- fhd2 2y agoI'd love to go with Hetzner (reliable for decades, well known etc), which has almost everything I need in their cloud offering, except an AWS RDS equivalent. OpenStack is probably worth a look! Sounds naive I guess, but my tech choices are pretty heavily biased towards "can I quickly find someone affordable to work on it?". Makes the market leader the obvious choice, quite often. And that's currently usually a US company.
- gilleain 2y agoFor quick reference, BLAST refers to the 'Basic Local Alignment Search Tool' that's a commonly used part of the bioinformatics toolkit. You 'BLAST' sequences by sending a query sequence of interest against a database of other sequences to find similarity hits.
- bow_ 2y agoI have been out of the field for some time, so I am not sure how much BLAST is used these days. Therer was a time when BLAST-ing a DNA and protein sequence you have is like doing a Google search on it: it simply tells you where the sequence might come from. This is useful especially when your research is to figure out what that specific sequence is doing. It won't give you the answer immediately (otherwise why bother doing the research at all), but it certainly gives context: sequence similarity often hints at similar / related functions. As an analogy: imagine if StackOverflow is suddenly down and you don't know *if* it's going to be up again.
- dharmab 2y agoMy sibling is a molecular biologist working in the industry and they do use BLAST data. She's been telling her company for months they need to secure access with an alternative source or offline backup, hopefully their software team started it in time.
- wisidisi 2y agoEveryone can set-up their own blast database. Usually if you are specialized on a certain species you have your own DB cached in memory somewhere locally for efficiency. Also there are alternatives. NCBI blast is just one of many. Also all the sequences are globally kept and in sync in different regions of the world, so if one Datacenter goes down you still have the option to use the exact same data from Europe or Japan and so on.
- dharmab 2y agoYup, her company's software was set up to only use NCBI and she's been warning that that was a risk :)
- qgin 2y agoAt some point we have to consider the possibility that these aren’t just cuts to the budget, but an intentional plan to visit each government department and giving it a stab wound to let it bleed out and die over the course of the next year or two.
- llamaimperative 2y agoIMO we don’t need to attribute malice to it, which will drag everyone into a debate about what’s going on inside the clearly broken minds of a few rich men. The sheer incompetence of it all is disqualifying by itself. In my experiences arguing with MAGA, the incompetence argument lands a lot more convincingly than the evil argument.
- croes 2y agoGiven the sheer amount of incompetence malice becomes a lot more probable
- llamaimperative 2y agoI’m not saying what’s true, I’m saying what is useful to argue. The goal is to convince other people, not to rah-rah the already-believers. Trivially: these websites go back up in a few days, is that more convincingly malice or just “these people don’t know how to operate a government?”
- smallmancontrov 2y agoDemocratic turnout was a problem in the 2024 election. Rah-rah is important, like it or not.
- llamaimperative 2y agoAnd do you have evidence to suggest more people would’ve been activated by more “he’s a fascist” messaging?
- sirolimus 2y agoReally pubmed?!?! USA is a disgrace!
- bananapub 2y agothe level of malice towards like...the entire world displayed by Trump and Musk is just beyond comprehension. how did they become so sociopathic and why did Americans let them have the most powerful jobs in the world?
- yardie 2y ago[flagged]
- bsenftner 2y agoAs a well educated and literate American, I confirm: the majority of US citizens are either beat down or a sociopath, largely thanks to a completely failed educational system. We manufacture these morons.
- cupcakecommons 2y agoyou both can't be serious
- yardie 2y agoSeriously done with excusing brutish behavior. After everything we have observed over the last 8 years why would I give this administration the benefit of the doubt? They’re shutting down this government until it is just the police and military left. And then what?
- bsenftner 2y agoI realized we had a material and significant education problem back in the early 80's, and have been an alarmist about our manufacturing obedient fools for decades. Now we have a critical mass, and the nation is crumbling while large numbers just watch dumbfounded. Moronic? The end of the USA is here. For fucks sake, Fox News is #1 in the USA.
- lesuorac 2y ago
- ciconia 2y agoI for one welcome our new overlords, they're gonna make our lives so much better at some point we're gonna have to ask them to stop winning! /s
- bloomingeek 2y agoI will only bend my knee to a Pizza Overlord. (I've heard they will have a stuffed crust and extra cheese, at no extra cost!) All they require is I give up most of my freedoms and stop any critical thinking.
- datavirtue 2y agoWho needs critical thinking when you have stuffed crust!
- DangerousPie 2y agoEuropean alternatives: https://europepmc.org/ https://europepmc.org/ https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/home https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/home https://www.ensembl.org/ https://www.ensembl.org/
- alephnerd 2y agoIt's been great seeing the pan-European effort on genomics and biotech. Denmark's ecosystem is definetly a North Star for this. That said, BLAST seems to be up [0] [0] - https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi
- catlikesshrimp 2y agonot for me
- fabian2k 2y agoPubmed is essentially Google for scientists. Anytime you search for scientific publications you usually use Pubmed. Of course there are alternatives, but until now you didn't really have to know about those. Everyone just used Pubmed, I'd bet that even most European scientists didn't know the local alternatives until now. And there's a lot more functionality made available to scientists by the NIH.
- rossant 2y agoI almost never use pubmed, while I use Google Scholar everyday (for neuroscience/medical/computer science research). But I admit that all medical researchers I know only use pubmed.
- InkCanon 2y agoWhat I'm astounded by is how Musk/DOGE haven't been stopped, sued or even arrested. Isn't this interfering with the proper functioning of government, or vandalism, or gross negligence, some other illegal act?
- timods 2y agoThey are most definitely being sued: https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/ https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal...
- InkCanon 2y agoNot an expert on law, but isn't there some mechanism to get policemen to stop DOGE while he's being sued? Like I imagine if I started taking down traffic lights the police would stop me then ask questions.
- derbOac 2y agoI think that's the question on everyones minds. A judge has to order it though, which would trigger a direct confrontation between law enforcement divisions. They could also order assets frozen or something though (I think?) which I don't understand why they don't do.
- chewbacha 2y agoYes, court orders. But the officers that enforce them are part of the executive branch, so under Trump. They have been purging all career agents so there’s few left to willingly enforce court orders. Its a coup.
- someothherguyy 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_crisis
- kube-system 2y agoLaw enforcement is under the executive branch. The judicial branch doesn’t have any physical ability to project force. The courts rely on the executive’s respect to carry out the rule of law.
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- goodluckchuck 2y agoIt works for me.
- InkCanon 2y agoI did a quick test, it looks like if you have set a DNS server like 1.1.1.1 you can still access it. But if you haven't, you can't.
- fweimer 2y agoIt's been pointed out that these servers still respond over TCP: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/114089755401568345 https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/114089755401568345 https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2025-March/022843.html https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2025-Mar... Given that the service is still partially operational (albeit not in a useful way), it's difficult to say from the outside what is going on.
- thomasingalls 2y agoPubmed is one of the most reliable services in the history of the internet. Sure the exact issue is opaque, but the fish rots from the head.
- prepend 2y agoPubmed is running. (Thankfully as it is one of the building blocks of science)
- hoofhearted 2y agoI’m a little late to this thread; but is PubMed really one of the most reliable services in the history of the internet? I worked on the underlying infrastructure that powers PubMed in the 2010’s at the National Library of Medicine. I was all up in that thing converting legacy pneumatic Johnson Control systems to Siemens PXC’s, and didn’t actually realize its historical importance online. That’s pretty cool to see this comment. We had full access to the Datacenter at the National Library of Medicine, and as a young apprentice I really had no idea what PubMed was at the time lol. I only realized how important of a system it might be when we saw the realtime traffic analytics on the screens outside of the data hall.
- raphman 2y agoCan confirm. Thanks for pointing this out. This makes it much more likely that someone messed up a server/firewall configuration than that Musk is ripping out network cables at NIH.
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- prepend 2y agoWhy are people assuming this was done intentionally? Is there more info somewhere describing the outage? I would typically assume that there’s some error or intentional crash.
- Tyrubias 2y agoI would believe it was an accident or bug if it was any other administration under any other circumstance. Given the vandalism that’s already been committed against basic U.S. government functions, I have to conclude it’s malice until proven otherwise.
- wisidisi 2y agoIt is certainly intentionally that NCBI is miraculously down for no real reason. But usually when the political debates are heated it happens more often. What one can observe now is just funny nothing of unhappy political activists.
- prepend 2y agoI hope you’re proven wrong. I suppose the good news is that there’s no report that this is malicious and it’s all just assumptions. That makes me happier than if there was some intentional shutdown. And fortunately, pubmed is up and running as of 822amEST
- quink 2y agoAs for me, I believe it not only because of the current administration per se, but because it's basically same as how the usaid.gov shutdown happened.
- gigatexal 2y agoDon’t worry bigballs is on it. What a clown show.
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- DeathArrow 2y ago[flagged]
- LadyCailin 2y agoBecause they’ve been gutting public institutions for an entire month now? Is this a serious question and you live under a rock, or are you a troll?
- cupcakecommons 2y ago[flagged]
- aryonoco 2y ago[flagged]
- troupo 2y agoBecause they have literally dismantled several government agencies, took down websites and removed useful databases from several others?
- robmsmt 2y agoBecause NIH has been targeted by DOGE, keep up
- prepend 2y ago[flagged]
- buyucu 2y agobecause those idiots fired the people who were keeping these dns servers alive.
- gary_0 2y agoApparently the FAA database that tracks accident investigations is down also, and probably a bunch of other systems that regular people aren't aware of that various organizations rely on. If this was a Chinese cyberattack, it would be the scandal of the decade. But it's on purpose.
- juujian 2y agoPossibly has something to do with Musk's limit on credit card payment? Very smart all around.
- fabian2k 2y agoI don't think we can guess the specific problem here, but the credit card limits could indeed easily take services offline as hosting isn't payed. So it would not surprise me at all to see a bunch of cases like this caused by the inability to pay their hosting bills.
- AlecSchueler 2y agoYep, start of the month as well.
- ivewonyoung 2y agoAFAIK cloudflare has a contract with CISA to provide DNS for .gov
- sunils34 2y agoThe entire 18f org was let go. Many of these employees oversaw the building of digital services. Login.gov is a most critical SSO resource for logging into services such as the IRS for tax payments. It’ll see peak usage next month for taxes. The teams maintaining these have been indiscriminately let go. More of these online services will start to go down, rapidly. If the point of DOGE is really to tackle the deficit, all these moves are incredibly shortsighted. (Yesterday the 18F former employee put https://18f.org/ https://18f.org/ as a transparent warning of what’s to come)
- wil421 2y agoIsn’t the leader of the 18f or digital whatever the so called “head” of DOGE aka the face for Elon. Btw, he’s totally not in charge. Wink wink.
- smallerize 2y agoI used to get them confused too, but 18f was a separate organization from USDS which got renamed DOGE. https://18f.org/ https://18f.org/
- thecopy 2y ago>If the point of DOGE is really to tackle the deficit It is obvious it is not. The purpose of a system is what it does.
- ethagnawl 2y ago> If the point of DOGE is really to tackle the deficit, all these moves are incredibly shortsighted. The point is to shutter or kneecap every last government service. When it becomes obvious which services were/are mission critical, they'll be replaced with private solutions -- most of which will conveniently be on offer from X.
- fnordpiglet 2y agoIn my 30+ years working at about everywhere and on everything the only place I’ve worked, inclusive of federal roles, with intentionally bottom productivity, are private government contractors. Federal employees while fairly kushy in benefits space were often pretty mission driven and believed deeply in what they were doing as they had taken a long term commitment on their role vs more money on the private side. The contractor space is a constant churn of bids and re orgs with the mission being keeping the contract in the next bidding cycle but losing it due to random political whims. It’s the most depressing form of employment I’ve ever experienced, and I’ve worked at multiple FAANG, so that’s really saying something.
- decasia 2y agoIt basically is like having politically motivated human chaos monkeys running around the data center randomly killing systems and seeing whether anyone notices.
- sneak 2y ago…which seems like not the worst idea? The very fact that it takes such a battle to even get read only access to analyze where the money is going is evidence enough that there is insanely baroque levels of waste and unnecessary services happening here. If it’s that important it can be put back. Why is it so scandalous that conservatives want a smaller government, got elected, and are now making the government smaller?
- whatshisface 2y agoYou wouldn't be saying "if it's important it can be put back," if it was a government service important to you, like water service to your house. Scientists actually need to use pubmed.
- sneak 2y agoEquating government-funded research programs (completely optional) to water provision isn’t remotely coherent. Pipes in the ground are a natural monopoly.
- whatshisface 2y agoI'm glad I have the chance to explain this to somebody. Research is also a natural monopoly, because a fundamental particle can only be discovered once. Repeated development of what's under the hood of a car isn't wasted because every car is different, but repeated invention of internal combustion would be wasted time and energy.
- sneak 2y agoI don’t believe your second sentence to be true; in fact quite the opposite: research seems infinitely parallelizable. The discovery part is what happens at the end.
- fareesh 2y agopossibly vandalism by someone looking to be the next Vindman-esque hero in their discord group
- belorn 2y agoSo looking at this from a technical point. NIH.gov has three name servers. Each host are still up, but only answering dns on TCP and not UDP. All three are located under the same AS, which implies that there is a single operator responsible. No ipv6. From the outside I can't see any sign that they have delegated operation of either the servers or the service to any external company. Doing some more looking around, it seems like NIH has a department/group/structure called Center for Information Technology, which is the IT support side of NIH and are the operators for the DNS servers.
- g-clef 2y agoI'm going to regret this, I bet, but here we go: Many years ago I was the manager of the team inside NIH/CIT that ran both the border firewalls and the DNS servers in question (to be specific, at the time it was NIH/CIT/DNST/NEB/NSS). Obviously, since I'm not there anymore I don't have any special inside information, but given that the DNS servers were responding to TCP and not UDP during the outage, my bet would be a simple firewall screwup, rather than malice. Stuff happens - maintenances have unintended consequences, people typo stuff, etc. Don't freak out about every event - save your powder for the real outrages (like 18F).
- bryancoxwell 2y agoEditing to remove an unproductive comment.
- zmgsabst 2y agoAnd you believe that DOGE employees are tweaking firewall rules at NIH IT?
- bryancoxwell 2y agoLike the vast majority of Americans, I have no idea what DOGE is actually doing.
- jerrygenser 2y agoIs this page correct, indicating they are undergoing maintenance? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/down/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/down/
- Maxious 2y agoLast modified header of Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:06:32 GMT so I think not - they probably put this html page up one time and redirected requests from other URLs to it and just forgot to remove Same message is in the internet archive back in 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201009054447/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/down/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201009054447/https://www.ncbi....
- koliber 2y agoMove fast and break things. We don't know the root cause, but the kinds of moves that Musk is pulling are straight from a sabotage manual.
- bleachmix 2y agoThe US is being liquidated
- possibleworlds 2y agoApologies in advance if this is too off topic, it’s something that has been bugging me for a while and I wanted to mention it somewhere. I occasionally use the Unifi Wifiman app to quickly test my network, even though I don’t use Unifi gear. One reason I like it is as soon as you open the app you see a bunch of latency metrics for various domains. X is one of the default test domains. I don’t know when this happened but x.com does not seem to be running anycast in Australia anymore, I get 110ms latency to x (for many this would be 130 to 160 or higher, my provider uses premium transit). A traceroute shows the server I am hitting is in Japan. Why? This is highly irregular, I can’t imagine any other major website not having a POP in Australia.
- ekianjo 2y agoI don't see PubMed as being down? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=study
- paulnpace 2y agoTitle is wrong. Sites are reachable, but not resolvable (except for servers still caching, such as 1.1.1.1).
- wileydragonfly 2y agoAnother cute and recent development is that they’ve really restricted the hours on the federal payment system, making it difficult for everyone to draw down funds owed. It’s all electronic banking, why does it ever have to go offline? https://pmsapp.psc.gov/pms/app/login https://pmsapp.psc.gov/pms/app/login
- notorandit 2y agoElon?
- stainablesteel 2y agoBLAST is totally outdated, not because it's a bad algorithm but because people should be able to run their own version locally. i find it disappointing that there isn't a lot of innovation in determining protein homogeneity, i thought of multiple ideas when i was doing bioinformatics but never had the time to implement it. slow and bad slackademia strikes again
- colingauvin 2y agoHow can you claim to have insight into bioinformatics, but not realize the reason BLAST is run in the cloud is that having all the sequence data of all existing organisms would be absolutely massive and exceed the storage capacity of most laptops?
- stainablesteel 2y agothe data really isn't that large and the algo isn't difficult, most people who do this work don't need to compare proteins across every organism in the world. most people just compare to a few organisms that they work within the context of for clinical trials or data. if you're comparing DNA and looking at every organism ever you might need such power, but if you do i'd hope you work at some institute that makes your own algo in house because blast isn't the end all be all
- niklasbuschmann 2y agoFuck Elon Musk
- creatonez 2y agoPubMed has been sabotaged. RFK Jr. and Elon Musk gaining political power will be one of the most challenging disasters the human race has ever encountered.
- michaelsshaw 2y ago[flagged]
- acomjean 2y agoSeems like it’s back. One of my projects when in bioinformatics was making an alternative search with NIH data. They update pubmed yearly with daily updates after that. It really is a great resource. We link to their pages: eg https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=24827528,%2020832466,%2019164521,%2017571923,%2015734681,%2015734678 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=24827528,%2020832466,%...
- geertj 2y agoI will go out on a (small) limb here and note that it really looks like the intention of this submission is is to associate a technical issue with DOGE and find a friendly audience to further a point. Normally a DNS issue of a government site would not be news. Since the submission does not give any evidence or fact, it is lazy in that respect. And if indeed it had an unstated motive (my small limb), you could also say it’s disingenuous and brigading. Am I wrong? I would be happy to stand corrected.
- throawayonthe 2y ago[dead]
- raphman 2y agoI submitted this post and can guarantee that it was not my intention to associate this technical issue with DOGE. Quite the opposite: both in this thread and on Bluesky (where a lot of people blame DOGE for 'shutting down PubMed'), I have advocated for Hanlon's razor. My aim was to document that this was just a DNS problem, and to suggest a workaround to affected people. I actually find it a little bit sad that the DOGE angle is so prominent in this thread.
- geertj 2y agoThank you for clarifying!
- buyucu 2y agowell, it looks like Elon's teenage boys fired the wrong people :)
- greatgib 2y agoThings like PubMed are probably some of best good to the world that did the US in recent years. Especially because of its great openness with widely open API and so... If it becomes unavailable, my feeling is that the world will really enter in a dark age.
- daveguy 2y agoAt this point, if this isn't reckless incompetence, it's malice.
- tonetheman 2y ago[dead]
- stellababe 2y agoIt is a DNS issue. Try and change which net you are using. If you are on wifi at home try your cell, however if your home network and cell provider are the same that wont help. A solution is to change which DNS you are using. Its a bit nerdy but actually very easy. Do a search on "change which DNS you are using for browsing" On your computer you can add following to your hosts file located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc add this 156.40.212.210 nih.gov 96.17.96.9 www.nih.gov 34.107.134.59 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 130.14.250.10 ftp.wip.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 130.14.250.10 ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 130.14.29.110 blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- stellababe 2y agoIt is a DNS issue. Try and change which net you are using. If you are on wifi at home try your cell, however if your home network and cell provider are the same that wont help. A solution is to change which DNS you are using. Its a bit nerdy but actually very easy. Do a search on "change which DNS you are using for browsing" On your computer you can add following to your hosts file located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc add this 156.40.212.210 nih.gov 96.17.96.9 www.nih.gov 34.107.134.59 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 130.14.250.10 ftp.wip.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 130.14.250.10 ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 130.14.29.110 blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- fortran77 2y agoFWIW, I just tried going to pubmed, searching for something, and everything seemed to work. DNS servers go down every now and then. It's always DNS, after all.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y agoDNS servers may be down temporarily, e.g., NIH is doing maintenance, but this is not making websites unreachable Perhaps "unreachable" in the title is a figure of speech I have no problem reaching these websites and can provide IPs to anyone who needs them For example, www.nih.gov 23.41.4.71 (Akamai) www.nih.gov 2.22.31.155 (Akamai) www.nih.gov 60.254.143.7 (Akamai) www.nih.gov 95.101.74.96 (Akamai) www.nih.gov 88.221.24.17 (Akamai) www.nih.gov 184.51.148.226 (Akamai) www.nih.gov 54.235.145.223 (Amazon) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 34.107.134.59 (Google) blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 130.14.29.110 Usage example echo 130.14.29.110 blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov|busybox sed -i -e 1r/dev/stdin -e1N /etc/hosts echo 34.107.134.59 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov|busybox sed -i -e 1/r/dev/stdin -e1N /etc/hosts
- hacker934 2y agoI still can't access blast. Am I supposed to put `130.14.29.110` into my web browser?
- catlikesshrimp 2y ago130.14.29.110 redirects me to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ which is unreachable 23.41.4.71 shows the following text "Invalid URL The requested URL "[no URL]", is invalid. Reference #9.47532217.1740935192.27b71986 https://errors.edgesuite.net/9.47532217.1740935192.27b71986 https://errors.edgesuite.net/9.47532217.1740935192.27b71986"
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- chriskanan 2y agoThe main pubmed website seems to be working for me as well and I'm in upstate NY: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ NIH/NSF pages have always gone down periodically for maintenance or otherwise, where this tends to happen over the weekend. It seems like this reaction by the HN community is a bit hasty. I've been reading HN since 2008 or so, and I feel like the comment quality is not what it once was....
- chriskanan 2y agoI'm using PubMed to prepare for a lecture I'm giving on Monday right now and it is working fine: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
- raphman 2y agoDNS resolution seems to work again now. https://dnschecker.org/#A/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov https://dnschecker.org/#A/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- dang 2y agoOk, I added [fixed] to the title above. Please let me know if that's not accurate!
- raphman 2y agoCool, thanks!
- directevolve 2y agoThis specific issue is fixed, but they also added censorship. Try searching NIH.gov for “transgender” and it kicks you out of the search.
- raphman 2y agoAccording to a comment on Reddit, search problems have been existing for some time - they did not just appear after the DNS issue [1]. Also, I just searched for "transgender" on nih.gov, and got lots of hits [2], the first one being a publication on PubMed [3]. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/NIH/comments/1j28ytk/comment/mfs14di/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NIH/comments/1j28ytk/comment/mfs14d... [2] https://search.nih.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=nih&query=trangender&commit=Search https://search.nih.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=nih&q... [3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34993517/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34993517/
- wadadadad 2y agoI appreciate your attempt to clarify here, but your citation link above in 2) is for 'trangender', a misspelling (but it does search successfully). This isn't a 'search problem'; searching for 'gender' and 'transgender' always and immediately redirects back to the main page. I also tested several unrelated searches without any issues (HIV, genome, public, potato).
- slater 2y agonih.gov seems to be back up. And if you search for "trans", you get search results, tho unrelated (e.g., "transnational", etc.). If you search for "transgender", it just redirects you to the homepage. The cruelty is the point.