For what it's worth, I don't use IE8 here, and I was going to experiment for a few more days before reporting this problem. But have had problems connecting to perlmonks.org for quite some time. It turns out that there are 3 unique IP addresses served out by the DNS servers for perlmonks.org. When I hard code my local machines to only use 66.39.54.27 for perlmonks.org, all the problems go away and the speed is quite acceptable. I haven't yet gone back to see which of the other two machines is causing the problem.

It would be very informative if you found that solved the problem for you too.

In reply to Re: IE8 connection problem to perlmonks.com by Loops
in thread IE8 connection problem to perlmonks.com by Lotus1

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