archive. * sabotages some DNS servers (specifically, ones not supporting the optional EDNS specification, more specifically the part that will forward your IP address through a chain of DNS servers). Some ISPs don’t support this, and Cloudflare’s DNS doesn’t support it. This is done because the guy behind archive.* uses this optional DNS feature to direct you to the closest server instead of using a better way of doing load balancing, and without this optional data he configured the thing to just redirect to some random Cloudflare host (at least last time I checked).

If this is the problem for you, switching to another DNS provider should fix it. Of use archive.org, that doesn’t sabotage its connections this way.