Ask HN: Archive.is Captcha Problems Lately?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37077049

by matttah • 3 years ago

13 20 3 years ago

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Anyone else having problems lately with archive.is taking you to a captcha, you solve it and then it just keeps redirecting you back to the captcha over and over. Happens to me in chromium, a friend just tried in firefox and had same problem.

Today is happening to me on a link from another thread which was to https://archive.is/gwuFp

retrocryptid• 3 years ago

Yup. Me too. On Firefox.

Abrownn• 3 years ago

Confirming Firefox issue here too

1980phipsi• 3 years ago

I have the issue on Firefox, but not on Chrome.

riedel• 3 years ago

Currently no luck on android using both brave and chrome.

IndoorPatio• 3 years ago

Yes, seems broken.

defrost• 3 years ago

Check your DNS, there are issues using Cloudflare to reach archive.{is | li | today | etc }

Google DNS and others work where Cloudflare does not.

dredmorbius4• 3 years ago

Interesting ...

Using Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) vs. Google (8.8.8.8) I get different IP resolution:

  for u in archive.ph archive.is archive.li archive.vn archive.fo archive.md;
  do
      echo ">>> ${u} <<<";
      host -t A $u 1.1.1.1;
      host -t A $u 8.8.8.8;
  done

Results:

  >>> archive.ph <<<
  Using domain server:
  Name: 1.1.1.1
  Address: 1.1.1.1#53
  Aliases: 
  
  archive.ph has address 192.210.214.166
  Using domain server:
  Name: 8.8.8.8
  Address: 8.8.8.8#53
  Aliases: 
  
  archive.ph has address 23.137.248.133
  >>> archive.is <<<
  Using domain server:
  Name: 1.1.1.1
  Address: 1.1.1.1#53
  Aliases: 
  
  archive.is has address 198.23.187.186
  Using domain server:
  Name: 8.8.8.8
  Address: 8.8.8.8#53
  Aliases: 
  
  archive.is has address 23.137.248.133
  >>> archive.li <<<
  Using domain server:
  Name: 1.1.1.1
  Address: 1.1.1.1#53
  Aliases: 
  
  archive.li has address 192.210.214.166
  Using domain server:
  Name: 8.8.8.8
  Address: 8.8.8.8#53
  Aliases: 
  
  archive.li has address 23.137.248.133
  >>> archive.vn <<<
  Using domain server:
  Name: 1.1.1.1
  Address: 1.1.1.1#53
  Aliases: 
  
  archive.vn has address 192.210.214.166
  Using domain server:
  Name: 8.8.8.8
  Address: 8.8.8.8#53
  Aliases: 
  
  archive.vn has address 23.137.248.133
  >>> archive.fo <<<
  Using domain server:
  Name: 1.1.1.1
  Address: 1.1.1.1#53
  Aliases: 
  
  archive.fo has address 192.210.214.166
  Using domain server:
  Name: 8.8.8.8
  Address: 8.8.8.8#53
  Aliases: 
  
  archive.fo has address 23.137.248.133
  >>> archive.md <<<
  Using domain server:
  Name: 1.1.1.1
  Address: 1.1.1.1#53
  Aliases: 
  
  archive.md has address 192.210.214.166
  Using domain server:
  Name: 8.8.8.8
  Address: 8.8.8.8#53
  Aliases: 
  
  archive.md has address 23.137.248.133

Cloudflare: Fix your shit.

jgrahamc2• 3 years ago

Nothing to fix. We are responding with what archive.* sends to us. They choose to send us incorrect data.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702

WarOnPrivacy• 3 years ago

In case anyone comes back to this. I noticed I get redirected to the archive.is domain and that's when I wind up in a captcha loop.

When I get captcha'd, the archive.is resolves to 198.23.187.186

I cleared my DNS server cache and got new IPs for archive.today and archive.ph but the same address for archive.is. I tried the OPs link, got redirected to .is and got captchas.

I cleared DNS server cache again and got 89.253.237.217 for .is (along with more new IPs for .ph and .today). No captchas.

alexolog2• 3 years ago

Captcha loop here as well. Both from FF and an ungoogled Chromium with no add ons that I keep just for these situations.

DNS is the unsecured quad9 9.9.9.10

Secure DNS is likewise https://dns10.quad9.net/dns-query

Console shows error 429

alexolog2• 3 years ago

And sure enough, if I disable secure DNS and change the DNS server to my ISP's, it works.

Assholes.

plssy3• 3 years ago

not a technical person, how can I fix this? turned off secure DNS, didn't work, changed IP to Google's, that disabled my WiFi...

plssy3• 3 years ago

i don't use cloudfare..i think..don't know what that is..just my wifi

plssy3• 3 years ago

strangely sometimes it randomly works once.

aendruk• 3 years ago

Yep, reCAPTCHA is satisfied but then archive.{is,ph,today} still just loops 429 Too Many Requests. Not sure how they arrived at that conclusion; reading HN I probably hit the service about once per day.

Firefox ETP strict, CenturyLink residential

00deadbeef• 3 years ago

Been having this issue for months. In addition, Safari can't connect to the server at all using iCloud Private Relay.

Seems like an OTT security config.

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