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If you’re in the UK this is quite an easy solution. The library is right by two large train stations and you can sign up same day for a card.

foofoo12 1y ago
11h55 from Port Ellen.
toomuchtodo 1y ago
Not in the UK, would someone be interested in working with the library to get them scanned for the Internet Archive? What would the cost and logistics look like?
- ta1243 1y ago
  archive.org's been down for ages. I put it down to blocking the UK thanks to stupid UK laws, but I can't reach it from servers elsewhere either. Is it still going or did it piss off the wrong person in America?
  - dcminter 1y ago
    Random Sweden-based person here. I was using it fine yesterday & it's up and available today as well. Are you perhaps using some DNS provider that's blocking it? Or a VPN or something that's blocked from the other direction perhaps?
    - ta1243 1y ago
      archive.org resolves to 207.241.224.2 using cf, google and quad9 This is just tcp to 207.241.224.2 port 80 (delivered via curl) or from a router. SYN goes out, nothing comes back. I can't reach it from AS16509 (AWS eu-west-2), AS17547 (MOne in Singapore), AS18106 (Viewquest Singapore), AS20712 (UK), or AS4755 (Tata in India) I can reach it from AS23674 (Nayatel Pakistan), AS174 (Cogent in US), AS3356 (Level3 in US), AS46887 (Crown Castle in US) and AS7545 (TPG Sydney) I can also reach it via mozillavpn on AS39351 (London) and presumably other sites Multiple machines, multiple ISPs, multiple ways to the internet. Very odd. Thanks for confirming it's not fully broken though
      - inemesitaffia 1y ago
        More specific is behind CloudFlare
      - dcminter 1y ago
        A bit late back to the party, but checking today I can curl archive.org from an AWS Cloud Shell in eu-west-2 no problem.
  - romanhn 1y ago
    I'm in California, no issues accessing it. I'm sure it'd be front page news if Internet Archive went down.
- billpg 1y ago
  If I end up going to London myself, my intention was to scan Wilf's column of those eight issues for archive-org. Two other HN users have offered to go look for me and I can't really ask them to do extra work to do if they're already doing me a favour.
dcminter 1y ago
> you can sign up same day for a card Do you know if there are any hoops to jump through these days? My understanding was that a reader card used to require an academic referral or at least a write-up of the research you planned to conduct. FWIW I was only ever there for the café or the bookshop though, neither of which required a card :D

foofoo12 1y ago

11h55 from Port Ellen.

toomuchtodo 1y ago

Not in the UK, would someone be interested in working with the library to get them scanned for the Internet Archive? What would the cost and logistics look like?

ta1243 1y ago
archive.org's been down for ages. I put it down to blocking the UK thanks to stupid UK laws, but I can't reach it from servers elsewhere either. Is it still going or did it piss off the wrong person in America?
- dcminter 1y ago
  Random Sweden-based person here. I was using it fine yesterday & it's up and available today as well. Are you perhaps using some DNS provider that's blocking it? Or a VPN or something that's blocked from the other direction perhaps?
  - ta1243 1y ago
    archive.org resolves to 207.241.224.2 using cf, google and quad9 This is just tcp to 207.241.224.2 port 80 (delivered via curl) or from a router. SYN goes out, nothing comes back. I can't reach it from AS16509 (AWS eu-west-2), AS17547 (MOne in Singapore), AS18106 (Viewquest Singapore), AS20712 (UK), or AS4755 (Tata in India) I can reach it from AS23674 (Nayatel Pakistan), AS174 (Cogent in US), AS3356 (Level3 in US), AS46887 (Crown Castle in US) and AS7545 (TPG Sydney) I can also reach it via mozillavpn on AS39351 (London) and presumably other sites Multiple machines, multiple ISPs, multiple ways to the internet. Very odd. Thanks for confirming it's not fully broken though
    - inemesitaffia 1y ago
      More specific is behind CloudFlare
    - dcminter 1y ago
      A bit late back to the party, but checking today I can curl archive.org from an AWS Cloud Shell in eu-west-2 no problem.
- romanhn 1y ago
  I'm in California, no issues accessing it. I'm sure it'd be front page news if Internet Archive went down.
billpg 1y ago
If I end up going to London myself, my intention was to scan Wilf's column of those eight issues for archive-org. Two other HN users have offered to go look for me and I can't really ask them to do extra work to do if they're already doing me a favour.

dcminter 1y ago

> you can sign up same day for a card Do you know if there are any hoops to jump through these days? My understanding was that a reader card used to require an academic referral or at least a write-up of the research you planned to conduct. FWIW I was only ever there for the café or the bookshop though, neither of which required a card :D