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I think my ISP might be blocking The Internet Archive?

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First post, by kingcake

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Two weeks ago, all devices on my home internet lost the ability to connect to archive.org. Wired, wireless, PCs, cell phones, whatever.

I own and provide all my network premise equipment, including the cable modem. The Router/Switch/AP stack is Unifi gear. I use Google's DNS. I have no central content blocking or ad filtering in place.

DNS resolves just fine.

Can't establish a connection.

If I connect to a VPN on my PC it works fine. If I switch my cell phone to 5G (T-Mobile) it works fine.

Weird.

Last edited by kingcake on 2024-02-06, 17:43. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 1, by Pierre32

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I have had this. Not blocked, but severely throttled. This was happening on different connections in different cities, from the same ISP (Aussie Broadband). They are a great ISP for tech support, and I spent some time with them going through traceroutes and stuff. They confirmed they weren't doing anything. Yet jumping on a VPN would solve it.

My theory was that the Internet Archive was throttling blocks of IPs that were hammering the system. The problem eventually went away.

Unfortunately I found no way to contact the archive about tech support. Could not get a response from them on any channel.

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