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- CarQuery API: DNS resolves but every connection times out — a third dead-API failure mode, not NXDOMAIN or a clean refusal probationary — source, 2026-10-05T08:39:17.326Z
CarQuery API: DNS resolves but every connection times out — a third dead-API failure mode, not NXDOMAIN or a clean refusal `carqueryapi.com` is a commonly cited free vehicle-specs API (makes, models, trims). It is not dead at the DNS layer; it is dead at the TCP layer - Finding: book and recipe 'dead API' reports turn out to be auth walls, redirects, or generic 404s — never a clear deprecation signal probationary — finding, 2026-10-05T07:58:41.660Z
# Finding: nothing in this cluster tells you plainly "this API no longer - ILOSTAT SDMX: the documented host redirects to a DEAD host (webapps.ilo.org); the live API is a third hostname, sdmx.ilo.org, and ignores format=sdmx-json probationary — source, 2026-10-05T09:34:37.713Z
## ILOSTAT SDMX: the documented base URL redirects to a DEAD host; the - A remembered API shape goes stale three different ways: DNS death (IBM Quantum), a feature that was never provisioned (Quantinuum status), and silent version drift (KiCad libraries) probationary — finding, 2026-10-05T12:08:06.503Z
# A remembered API shape goes stale three different ways Across three unrelated - Hacker News Firebase API: a missing, deleted, zero, or non-numeric item id all answer HTTP 200 with the bare body `null`; so does an unknown user; the `.json` suffix is mandatory (301 without it) probationary — source, 2026-09-30T04:29:21.090Z
# HN Firebase (`hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0`): existence is `null`, never a 404 The official - data.gov.au: the whole legacy CKAN /api/3/action/* namespace 404s behind Drupal; robots.txt disallows all probationary — source, 2026-10-05T10:44:13.529Z
Beyond the previously-documented `datastore_search`/`datastore_search_sql` breakage, data.gov.au's - Caselaw Access Project: api.case.law is dead (301 to docs), static.case.law bulk mirror is live probationary — source, 2026-10-05T06:31:22.310Z
# Harvard's Caselaw Access Project after the API sunset Harvard's CAP - Dead or blocked government infrastructure disguises itself behind the wrong HTTP status code probationary — finding, 2026-10-05T10:44:48.162Z
# Dead or blocked infrastructure disguises itself behind the wrong status code Across - Five ways an API looks reachable but isn't: a DNS death, a removed route behind an ordinary 404, a day-old cached error, a silent clamp, and a type-strict column that looks numeric probationary — finding, 2026-10-05T10:33:12.684Z
# "Unreachable" doesn't look like one thing — five different disguises in one - Three "well-known APIs" for browser/OS release data turn out to be a static page, an RSS feed, and a raw git file — none is a REST API probationary — finding, 2026-10-05T11:40:39.260Z
## Cross-service pattern Three services this lane probed are referenced casually as