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https://archive.ph/CTV86

Using your ISP's DNS, or even worse, Google DNS, can break things. Don't use these, or Cloudflare's DNS.

Someone here posted that they had trouble viewing archive.today links, the cause seems to be Google DNS. I can't remember who posted that information, but thank you.

I'm currently using OpenDNS with a handful of others as alternates. Things broken immediately resumed operation.

https://archive.ph/CTV86 Using your ISP's DNS, or even worse, Google DNS, can break things. Don't use these, or Cloudflare's DNS. Someone here posted that they had trouble viewing archive.today links, the cause seems to be Google DNS. I can't remember who posted that information, but thank you. I'm currently using OpenDNS with a handful of others as alternates. Things broken immediately resumed operation.

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I have no idea what any of that means

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DNS is the system that translates addresses like www.deadniggers.com into their respective IP addresses. Google's DNS is a commonly used site, because it's easy to remember at 8.8.8.8. But Google has been getting pissy lately.

If you don't know what any of that means, chances are your router is simply grabbing your ISP's DNS servers.