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Are you able to access archive.org from where you are in the UK? (piefed.social)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by recursivepickle@piefed.social to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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I've not been able to load the site from a UK IP address since this weekend I think. I can ping it, but browser requests just times out.

https://archive.org/

Edit: I'm in London BTW.

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[–] ewo@piefed.ca 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

O2/giffgaff blocks it. I'm using a VPN to Netherlands since imgur got blocked so they too, can get stuffed.

[–] recursivepickle@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

True. giffgaff blocks it, I've a VPN on my phone for the same reason.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Works for me. Tested on Virgin Media and EE Mobile in London.

[–] recursivepickle@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for your reply.

It's weird, maybe It's my provider who blocked them then. Will try with another DNS provider and see if that solves it.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 months ago

I couldn't even access my home instance (thelemmy.club) after a server upgrade without changing my DNS. I thought it had shut down until I saw it worked on a VPN. ISPs do weird stuff like that. Try changing your DNS. Archive.org works fine for me, I'm using cloudflare DNS.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Check whether your provider enabled some kind of adult content filter or something like that. Maybe archive.org ended up the blocklist.

[–] recursivepickle@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

That's a good shout. I'll see if they have anything like that.

[–] dave@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not working for me on Virgin…

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you checked your parental controls?

https://www.virginmedia.com/help/security/parental-controls

[–] dave@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, turned off, and my hub is in modem mode (using FreshTomato on an R8000).

[–] beef_supreme@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you're on Three UK or O2, then it looks like it may be blocked: https://www.blocked.org.uk/site/http://archive.org

[–] recursivepickle@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Now that is a useful site. Thanks for that.

[–] UncleArthur@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Opens ever so slooooowly using Gigaclear and Firefox; it's as if the site is overloaded and it doesn't fully load. No luck on Vodafone 4G; the connection times out.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Working for me in South Wales on Plusnet, but not on mobile data from Smarty.

[–] recursivepickle@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That's also odd. I'm on Hyperoptic, I should probably give them a call to ask what's up.

Thanks for your reply!

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

No worries 🙂

I've just tried again on mobile data, and it's working properly. The weather here has been a bit shit, so it might just have been that earlier 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

Works for me, but did take a long time to resolve.

[–] cman6@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can't connect FWIW

[–] recursivepickle@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that on both your phone data plan and broadband connection? It's beginning to look like it might be provider dependent.

[–] cman6@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

On my phone it failed instantly! "Secure connection failed" apparently.

Different providers for broadband and phone

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

Working fine from mobile phone, Yorkshire. 4G Talkmobile (using Vodaphone's network). Loaded immediately.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 months ago

Talktalk wifi and it loads for me.