Wayback Machine down?

[canswift]

Is anyone else experiencing difficulty accessing Archive.org's Wayback Machine? Anytime I try entering a domain name to check, I get a "technical difficulties, try again" message. This has been going on (for me) since yesterday. Is it just me? Thanks.

 

[JGK]

Hi canbrit,

It's working for me, can you open this link?

Otherwise, you might try turning off your computer and restarting the Internet connection, plus clearing your cache if necessary.

 

[Hurley4540]

Working for me.

 

[canswift]

Hi canbrit,

It's working for me, can you open this link?

Otherwise, you might try turning off your computer and restarting the Internet connection, plus clearing your cache if necessary.

Yes, the link works fine for me. However, when I try checking some of the names I'm interested in I still get the Failed Connection message. I'm going to try the restart and cache clearing you suggested, thanks for the help.

 

[Peter]

the wayback achine ios notoriously slow and problematic I regularly get errors myself when using it. Most likely just a case of trying again a fw times.

 

[Hurley4540]

Wonder how much UV's that site gets per day.....

 

[Rob J]

archive.org is a great and very valuable tool, but it is also notoriously unreliable. But considering the enormous amount of data they house and their lack of funding they do a pretty good job.

I wish they'd offer a paid service, i'd gladly pay for a reliable archive.org lookup service with an API. It can be frustrating trying to navigate all the errors.

 

[WORDSWORTH]

I get that message sometimes when a domain I check either has invalid or no nameservers.

Check that the nameservers for your domain are correct and that it is resolving.

Matt.

 

[Name Trader]

the wayback achine ios notoriously slow and problematic I regularly get errors myself when using it. Most likely just a case of trying again a fw times.

I also concur with this statement. It's very irritating. But it's a free service. Although if you try again and you continuously get a Failed Connection, then best to wait 24hrs.

 

[weblord]

working here but kinda slow

 

[canswift]

Thanks for all the posts. I'm going to wait till tomorrow now and try again...