NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable

Re:NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unre... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:23AM (#43232013)

DNS servers may be down temporarily, e.g., NIH is doing maintenance, but this is not making websites unreachable

Perhaps "unreachable" in the title is a figure of speech

I have no problem reaching these websites and can provide IPs to anyone who needs them

For example,

www.nih.gov 23.41.4.71 (Akamai)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 130.14.29.110 (Google)

blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 130.14.29.110 (NIH)

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Re:NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unre... by hacker934 on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:08PM (#43232501)

I still can't access blast. Am I supposed to put `130.14.29.110` into my web browser?

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Re:NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unre... by catlikesshrimp on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:07PM (#43232492)

130.14.29.110 redirects me to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

which is unreachable

23.41.4.71 shows the following text

"Invalid URL The requested URL "[no URL]", is invalid.

Reference #9.47532217.1740935192.27b71986

https://errors.edgesuite.net/9.47532217.1740935192.27b71986"

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Re:NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unre... by chriskanan on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:29PM (#43232763)

The main pubmed website seems to be working for me as well and I'm in upstate NY: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

NIH/NSF pages have always gone down periodically for maintenance or otherwise, where this tends to happen over the weekend. It seems like this reaction by the HN community is a bit hasty. I've been reading HN since 2008 or so, and I feel like the comment quality is not what it once was....

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