Unfortunately for me, PerlMonks has been pretty much unusable over the last week.

I normally connect with https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=861371 — this takes me to my home node (but not logged in yet). After persevering today, I see Last here: indicated "a week ago".

I had tried several times and, thinking I'd just been unlucky and the site was down, gave up. Today I gave it some minutes; while still waiting, I pinged the org, com & net TLDs: 

$ ping -c3 perlmonks.org
PING perlmonks.org (66.39.54.27): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.39.54.27: icmp_seq=0 ttl=40 time=229.903 ms
64 bytes from 66.39.54.27: icmp_seq=1 ttl=40 time=230.685 ms
64 bytes from 66.39.54.27: icmp_seq=2 ttl=40 time=230.767 ms
--- perlmonks.org ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 229.903/230.452/230.767/0.390 ms

$ ping -c3 perlmonks.com
PING perlmonks.com (66.39.54.27): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.39.54.27: icmp_seq=0 ttl=40 time=230.893 ms
64 bytes from 66.39.54.27: icmp_seq=1 ttl=40 time=230.677 ms
64 bytes from 66.39.54.27: icmp_seq=2 ttl=40 time=230.582 ms
--- perlmonks.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 230.582/230.717/230.893/0.130 ms

$ ping -c3 perlmonks.net
PING perlmonks.net (66.39.54.27): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.39.54.27: icmp_seq=0 ttl=40 time=230.886 ms
64 bytes from 66.39.54.27: icmp_seq=1 ttl=40 time=229.992 ms
64 bytes from 66.39.54.27: icmp_seq=2 ttl=40 time=230.835 ms
--- perlmonks.net ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 229.992/230.571/230.886/0.410 ms

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These looked reasonable. After checking these results, I found I had finally connected to https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=861371. I then proceeded to log in: this, again, took several minutes. Subsequent attempts to access various (unrelated) nodes either took a long time or I got a "Connection timed-out" message.

I'm hoping I can post this; regardless, I won't be spending any more time on this site today — I may give it another go over the weekend.

I'm using Firefox on MSWin10. I had updated earlier today to 142.0.1. Problems over the last week or so would have used the last one or two versions.

— Ken

In reply to Re: Perlmonks site has become far too slow by kcott
in thread Perlmonks site has become far too slow by stevieb

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