HACKER Q&A
📣 ementally

Is archive.today/is/md/etc. compromised?


It is now redirecting to a page that is owned by 5oh.ru, this is not the first time this happened btw, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43490423.

Sad to see this happens as it performs much better than archive.org

  👤 anenefan Accepted Answer ✓
Still working fine here.

I see you have noticed this has happened before, I did recall the same when I saw this ... the bottom post talks about too many requests - if not your many visits, probably shared IP pool or something.

👤 firefax
It always gave me a sketchy vibe, I try to rely on the Internet Archive whenever possible.

(Some publishers whitelist their bot, since it is used for scholarly citations -- I'm not clear how a reviewer would review to an archive.is link and despite having been out of academia for a decade, old habits die hard.)

Also, how are you accessing the site? Are you sure the error stems from the destination?

I've never had what you describe happen but I have had some... interesting... errors pop up when doing OSINT in Tor.

(Ex: a SSL_ERROR_UNSAFE_NEGOTIATION when attempting to access the copy of a search warrant that was served on a state senator from a government website specifically set up to make such documents available.)

👤 DanAtC
archive.today's DNS is unreliable garbage.

They take issue with Cloudflare not sending EDNS Client Subnet and lately I've noticed they've taken issue with NextDNS' anonymized EDNS.

Gives shady data-collection vibes.

👤 foobahhhhh
I remember reading this may be a rate limiter or DDoS protection behaviour
👤 leftcenterright
works for me, would be interesting to see what IP addresses it is redirecting for you, hopefully you are not using a malicious/compromised DNS server?
👤 mikequinlan
archive.today, archive.is, and archive.md are all working correctly for me now.