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VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> posted:

> HenHanna <HenHanna@Posting.from.CsiPh> wrote:
> 
> > https://rec.puzzles.narkive.com/ <---- Is this site dead?
> >                       (this last Slash in URL always  seemed  stupid)
> 
> NOTE: I'm only replying to this inquiry in HenHanna's multiple-issue
> article, so I excluded the unrelated newsgroups of alt.usage.english &
> alt.english.usage in my reply.
> 
> Yes, narkive.com is down.  I'm not sure for how long, but it looks to be
> many days if not for [over] a month.
> 
> https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/narkive.com.html
> "Narkive.com is unavailable.
> The website is currently under maintenance..."
> 
> https://pulsetic.com/is-website-down/ (enter narkive.com)
> "It is down for 100% of the world."
> (Checks from 15 worldwide locations. HQ is Reykjavik, Iceland.)
> 
> Returns 503 web response code.  The server can be reached, but it is not
> responsive.
> 
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/503
> 
> web.archive.org reports 10 fails (503 error) out of 10 attempts
> yesterday (6/10/26).  Back on May 12, they were getting a 429 error
> which means the server is overloaded (too busy), or the server is rate
> limiting (throttling the number of concurrent connections).  Note that
> even archive.org has become increasingly slow, and sometimes fails to
> fetch its own archive data.  I was going to walk back through
> archive.org's records on narkive.com, but archive.org became
> unresponsive (fetch failed), or way to slow for me to bother wasting
> time on waiting for it to fetch.
> 
> "ping narkive.com" shows no packet loss, but web.archive.org's report
> says "503 - No server is available to handle this request."  This led me
> to believe archive.org is webhosted (they don't run their own server,
> but utilize a web hoster).  I did a "tracert narkive.com" which ended at
> a flyio.net domain.  I couldn't ping flyio.net, so either they have it
> disabled (ICMP ECHO), or they're unresponsive, too.  Pulsetic's test
> says flyio.net is taking too long to respond.  However, I can connect to
> https://status.flyio.net/history which shows it's really fly.io, and I
> can get to fly.io.  When I go to https://status.flyio.net/uptime, the
> Jun 11 square (today) shows "1 component had an outage".  Something
> going there, and narkive.com seems hosted there.



Thank you  --- narkive.com is  up today  --- (Can I post from it?)

                 but  NovaBBS is gone

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(A few weeks ago, Some guy on Rec.Puzzles was complaining about  my  LONG lines)

Because Google Groups discontinued its Usenet operations, the most reliable and direct web interfaces to browse and read text-based Usenet newsgroups today are UsenetArchives.com and Narkive.

https://usenetarchives.com/index.php?s=%20%20cartalk%20%20puzzler&t=0&p=1

https://usenetarchives.com/index.php?s=cartalk%20%20puzzler

https://usenetarchives.com/index.php?s=cartalk%20%20puzzler&t=0&p=1

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  Is Narkive down? (was: (Newsgrouper, CsiPh) blah blah blah) VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2026-06-11 16:34 -0500
     Narkive -- UsenetArchives.com -- NPR (CarTalk) Puzzler HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-13 17:26 +0000

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