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Unrelated to the story, but could my ISP possibly be blocking archive.is? Is this a known issue with that site?

None of the links ever work for me, but it seems that I can access it anywhere but my home network.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

Thanks!

Using Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

Yes I am. Thank you!

For a provider as big as 1.1.1.1, it seems like they would aggregate DNS from multiple sources to solve cases that specifically didn’t work from 1.1.1.1. Not sure how things work at that level but if DNS can be broken simply because of the provider source address, it seems natural to query behind the scenes from multiple sources to cache the more correct value.

archive.is is blocked in Australia and some other countries, along with many other sites. For Australia this happened in May this year.

Most ISP's just use DNS-filtering to block it, so getting around it is as easy as changing your DNS settings.

I am in Australia and the link worked fine, so this must only be true for certain ISPs?

Are you using your isp's dns servers?

My isp's nameserver responds with "REFUSED". Quad 9 works just fine:

  $ nslookup archive.is 125.253.59.220
  Server:  125.253.59.220
  Address: 125.253.59.220#53
  
  ** server can't find archive.is: REFUSED
  
  $ nslookup archive.is 9.9.9.9
  Server:  9.9.9.9
  Address: 9.9.9.9#53
  
  Non-authoritative answer:
  Name: archive.is
  Address: 51.38.113.224

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