I'm among several HN members who're experiencing an endless ReCAPTCHA loop when attempting to access Archive Today (<https://archive.today> a/k/a AT) or any of its various domain aliases:

- <https://archive.ph>

- <https://archive.is>

- <https://archive.li>

- <https://archive.vn>

- <https://archive.fo>

- <https://archive.md>

All resolve to 23.137.248.133 for me.

This has been noted in comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37136514> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37132089> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37105936>

As well as an earlier HN story submission: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37077049>

As a practical upshot, as AT is the principle viable workaround for paywalled articles on HN, which means that HN is now left without a reliable option for such submissions. This becomes a policy issue for HN itself.

There's https://ghostarchive.org and https://12ft.io

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.