Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog?
by gyrovague-com on 2/1/2026, 5:11:53 AM
https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
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by: its-summertime
previously <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740</a>
2/1/2026, 9:18:57 AM
by: Shank
It is academically very interesting to think about this in light of their long-standing dispute with Cloudflare (<a href="https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/18227" rel="nofollow">https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...</a>) over EDNS, which could have privacy implications attached.<p>I think no matter how you slice it though, it's unethical and reprehensible to coordinate (even a shoddy) DDoS leveraging your visitors as middlemen. This is effectively coordinating a botnet, and we shouldn't condone this behavior as a community.
2/3/2026, 4:59:02 AM
by: archagon
Why is this flagged?<p>Given the content, I find this suspicious.
2/1/2026, 7:59:40 PM
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2/3/2026, 5:25:03 AM
by: deathanatos
… seems like we the HN community should find a new site to mirror with.
2/3/2026, 5:33:46 AM
by: deaux
> Well, I wish I had one, but at this stage I really don’t. The most charitable interpretation would be that the investigative heat is starting to get to the webmaster and they’re lashing out in misguided self-defense.<p>I don't think they're lashing out in self-defense. This is a harmless way for them to get attention, which is what they're desparate for because the FBI is after them at the behest of Bezos and other billionaires who control the paywalled media and don't like archive.today's role in making them accessible. The only thing that could possibly save them (though it almost certainly won't), is gathering as many eyeballs as possible from the people who <i>like</i> the service. HN having a super high concentration of those. Almost every paywalled post here has an archive.today link in the comments.<p>That's also why they posted about it on HN, explicitly under that name. To get HN eyeballs.<p>It's intentionally harmless because, as you confirmed, it's not costing you any money or resources.
2/3/2026, 6:10:18 AM
by: justsomehnguy
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2/1/2026, 8:08:31 AM
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2/1/2026, 5:17:59 PM
by: NedF
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2/1/2026, 7:53:45 AM
by: JasonADrury
This is the blog of a guy who for whatever reason is trying to dox the owner of archive.today<p>It's a shame the DDoS isn't working.<p>OTOH, this all looks so silly it might as well be the archive.today operator trying to push fake dox on themselves.
2/1/2026, 7:58:56 AM