[philsnow]

No matter which upstream DNS you use, if you have a local resolver, you might be able to configure it to resolve archive domains with google's dns, which has consistently worked for me for years.

If you use dnsmasq (either bundled inside pihole or not), this line in its config will make it use google dns to resolve archive.is and archive.ph:

  server=/archive.is/archive.ph/8.8.8.8

I started using blocky instead of pihole recently, and I have this in my blocky config.yaml to do the same thing:

  conditional:
    fallbackUpstream: false
    mapping:
      archive.is: 8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4
      archive.ph: 8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4