G'day Alexander,

I use search.cpan.org nearly every day: I haven't noticed any problems over recent weeks (or, indeed, recent months).

I used it successfully about 20-30 minutes before reading your post. I used it yesterday multiple times over about an eight hour period.

My timezone is UTC+10.00 — it's possible I'm just accessing it at a quieter time. Perhaps others based in Europe have had a different experience.

I ran a ping. Other than a longer roundtrip, I'm getting much the same results as you:

$ ping -c8 search.cpan.org
PING cpansearch.perl.org (194.106.223.155): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 194.106.223.155: icmp_seq=0 ttl=48 time=314.191 ms
64 bytes from 194.106.223.155: icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=313.335 ms
64 bytes from 194.106.223.155: icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=313.465 ms
64 bytes from 194.106.223.155: icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=313.455 ms
64 bytes from 194.106.223.155: icmp_seq=4 ttl=48 time=313.425 ms
64 bytes from 194.106.223.155: icmp_seq=5 ttl=48 time=312.850 ms
64 bytes from 194.106.223.155: icmp_seq=6 ttl=48 time=313.020 ms
64 bytes from 194.106.223.155: icmp_seq=7 ttl=48 time=312.897 ms

--- cpansearch.perl.org ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 312.850/313.330/314.191/0.403 ms
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