anyone knows what's up with afraid.org? unavailable for a coupla days now

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨yuman@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

https://freedns.afraid.org/

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 it with ublock disabled, tor browser, same same.

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Mordikan@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

You might run traceroutes/mtr to see where exactly this is failing. Here's the IP I show in case yours differs:

➜  ~ dig freedns.afraid.org @10.10.0.1 A

; <<>> DiG 9.20.23 <<>> freedns.afraid.org @10.10.0.1 A
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51734
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;freedns.afraid.org.		IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
freedns.afraid.org.	60	IN	A	69.42.215.252

;; Query time: 206 msec
;; SERVER: 10.10.0.1#53(10.10.0.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Wed Jun 03 14:48:58 CDT 2026
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 63

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MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I just checked and its up for me. I haven’t logged in yet.

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brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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).

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non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It’s fine for me

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irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Seems to be fine from here:

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- MuttMutt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Same…
  
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  - irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    This might have something to do with it. Jebus…it’s a wonder anything connects sometimes.
    
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recursive_recursion@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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terabyterex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
i didn’t know what it was but i was able to go there and see its free DNS - so works for me

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Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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
UDP	User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications

6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.

[Thread #331 for this comm, first seen 3rd Jun 2026, 12:40] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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.

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- a_jeering_serpent@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  jfc this is so sad because it would actually be hard for a human coder of very little ability to do it this wrong. at least it has its own instance i can block.
  
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LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Works fine for me.

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a_jeering_serpent@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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.

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hexagonwin@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
i’m able to visit freedns.afraid.org on my browser as well

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HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Works fine for me. It’s you.

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- MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Works for me too (on Mullvad - Brussels).
  
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