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Comment by Deleriumm | Hacker News Reader

Thanks, I couldn't read the article.

> 403 Forbidden -- Cloudflare

I don't think they actually use cloudflare. Neither their nameservers nor their server IPs are cloudflare. They only copied their interstitials.

> nor their server IPs are cloudflare

They are for me, apparently because I'm using cloudflare's DNS service, and cloudflare is returning its own IP when I query for archive.vn's.

  $ dig +short @8.8.8.8 archive.vn 
  5.196.68.232
  $ dig +short @1.1.1.1 archive.vn       
  1.0.0.1
  1.1.1.1

They don't return themselves for all hosts,

  $ dig +short @1.1.1.1 google.com
  172.217.9.14

I wonder by what criteria they intercept, and if this by archive.vn's or cloudflare's initiative.

This link should answer your questions and give the backstory.

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

For others seeing this who need a short and simple fix: this seems to happen when your DNS server is 1.1.1.1, changing to 8.8.8.8 or anything else fixes it. archive.is has a disagreement with cloudflare at the moment which makes it unusable on cloudflare's DNS.

Add 94.16.117.236 archive.vn in your /etc/hosts

https://outline.com/gdqBaR

Reply on news.ycombinator.com