anyone knows what's up with afraid.org? unavailable for a coupla days now (freedns.afraid.org)
from yuman@programming.dev to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 11:53
https://programming.dev/post/51413059

don’t think it’s me, although downforeveryoneorjustme.com/freedns.afraid.org says it is, tried it via tor, same thing - connection times out but weirdly. anyone in the know?

my registered subdomains work fine. tried searching got back nada.

edit: thanks everyone, guess it’s me although I can’t figure out what the issue is - pihole doesn’t block it (tried without it), tried it with ublock disabled, tor browser, different devices, browsers - same same

edit2: thanks again everyone, you don’t need to check if it’s working. apparently I’m blocked from accessing the site, can’t see any other explanation. DNS resolves fine, flushed caches, tried private mode, clear cookies, tried everything on my end to rule stuff out, nothing

#selfhosted

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HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 11:56 next collapse

Works fine for me. It’s you.

MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip on 03 Jun 12:02 collapse

Works for me too (on Mullvad - Brussels).

hexagonwin@lemmy.today on 03 Jun 12:25 next collapse

i’m able to visit freedns.afraid.org on my browser as well

a_jeering_serpent@sopuli.xyz on 03 Jun 12:27 next collapse

Adblocker? Some lists will block dynamic dns providers (badblock for sure has afraid.org). If so you want to exempt that since you legitimately use it.

LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz on 03 Jun 12:38 next collapse

Works fine for me.

Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz on 03 Jun 12:40 next collapse

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
IP Internet Protocol
NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage

5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 13 acronyms.

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deegeese@sopuli.xyz on 03 Jun 13:25 collapse

Oh great, it’s a bot that hallucinates answers to questions no one asked.

4 answers for one acronym, pat yourself on the back there buddy.

terabyterex@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 12:46 next collapse

i didn’t know what it was but i was able to go there and see its free DNS - so works for me

[deleted] on 03 Jun 12:52 next collapse

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irmadlad@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 13:42 next collapse

Seems to be fine from here:

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<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a5f9dbe5-7c33-4187-88bd-d528c7be7985.png">

MuttMutt@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 13:50 collapse

Same…

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d329a96d-11d5-4df1-9f52-d8980acf470c.jpeg">

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 14:16 collapse

This might have something to do with it. Jebus…it’s a wonder anything connects sometimes.

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<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4000f48d-e57c-424c-9965-5656c2283b84.png">

non_burglar@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 13:57 next collapse

It’s fine for me

brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 03 Jun 13:59 next collapse

tried it via tor

Doesn’t load in Tor for me either but I suspect their site is simply blocking Tor. The site does load fine outside Tor in the regular clearnet.

9 times out of 10 these sort of things turn out to be a DNS issue on your end, you might want to double-check you’re actually able to query their IP address via nslookup freedns.afraid.org or similar. (assuming you’ve already tried other web browsers to rule out issues with installed extensions or specific browser settings).

MehBlah@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 16:00 collapse

I just checked and its up for me. I haven’t logged in yet.