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## archive-dns-issue.md

      
        
          
            
              
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                Reference note about archive.today and Cloudflare DNS.
              
          
        
      
        

      
      
    Problem

If you use Cloudflare's DNS (1.1.1.1), then the popular web archive archive.today
(and the related sites archive.ph, archive.is, archive.li, archive.vn, archive.md, and archive.fo) will either fail to resolve, or show an infinite CAPTCHA loop. If it does resolve when you're on Cloudflare's DNS, you may have the domain locally cached.
Solution

Fix this problem by:

Configuring dnsmasq on your local DNS server to use an alternate DNS server for archive.today (see comment from @joshenders below), or
Connecting to a VPN before connecting to archive.today (only works if the VPN uses different DNS servers), or