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Comment by scottlocklin | Hacker News Reader

available on archive here: https://archive.is/pk9YR

Does not work for me, plus SSL error :|

You're using 1.1.1.1 for your DNS resolver. Archive.is has this hatred with them, and purposely serves a bad record to Cloudflare's resolver as a "retaliation." The SSL error you're seeing is because they (that is, archive.is authoritative server) returns the IP 1.1.1.1 when 1.1.1.1 is used to resolve the A record.

I should reiterate: this is archive.is' doing this, not Cloudflare.

EDIT: Some more details, including quotes from Cloudflare's CEO from another internet citizen: https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/

EDIT2: I should mention that I still use 1.1.1.1, and I agree with their stance on this. :)

This is really bad. I don’t love cloudflare, but I do use their dns. This makes me want to support them with my business and makes me wish I could take back my archive donations...

Judging by the tweet, the archive.is admin says the lack of the EDNS data causes many problems. Maybe it increases his operating costs too?

Archive.is a free service and goes offline frequently so I'm inclined to believe he's really trying to triage the problem queue, unless I'm missing something.

Plenty of other providers/projects are able to geo/load-balance based on many other factors, like request IP. I dunno, I just feel like it's a dumb hill to die on.

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