Does Cloudflare DNS block it? Or are you proposing Cloudflare DNS as a solution?

_l4jh · on July 18, 2023

It's a long story! https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/

In short if you use Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS then some archive.is domains won't load so you should perhaps use another DNS server.

Edit: Not because 1.1.1.1 is in the wrong it is just what the person behind archive.is recommends as he will not be changing his position and neither will Cloudflare so it's a bit of a stalemate.

arjvik · on July 21, 2023

Interesting. If this becomes a widespread practice, I suppose Cloudflare could start including bogus client subnet values in its upstream requests.

whatgoodisaroad · on July 18, 2023

this story does more to persuade me to switch to 1.1.1.1

hostcontroller · on July 18, 2023

It's the other way around. The site blocks Cloudflare for some political reasons that have been mentioned here before, but I can't remember what they were.

kalleboo · on July 19, 2023

I thought it was because Cloudflare DNS doesn't pass on the full IP subnet of the requesting computer, which archive.is wants. archive.is says they need it for better CDN routing, CloudFlare says it's a privacy violation and there are enough CloudFlare PoPs to provide for CDN granularity just by going off the requesting server.