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Is Narkive down? (was: (Newsgrouper, CsiPh) blah blah blah)

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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.

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