I'm also getting a blank screen for perlmonks.org in my browsers (Opera & Firefox), and attempts to show source fail completely.

However, if I use lwp-request, I get the following headers: 

c:\test>lwp-request -Sed http://perlmonks.org/
GET http://perlmonks.org/ --> 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 02:58:07 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "129595-f7d9-4a3982a11aac0"
Server: Apache/2.2.17
Content-Length: 63449
Content-Type: text/html
Last-Modified: Thu, 19 May 2011 02:57:23 GMT
Client-Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 02:58:06 GMT
Client-Peer: 209.197.123.153:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
Link: </css/common.css>; rel="stylesheet"; type="text/css"
Link: <?node_id=204962>; rel="stylesheet"; type="text/css"
Link: </favicon.ico>; rel="icon"
Title: PerlMonks - The Monastery Gates
X-Meta-Description: A community committed to sharing Perl
                     knowledge and coding tips.  The site
                     contains questions and answers, useful
                     snippets, and a library of code.
X-Meta-Keywords: perl, mod_perl, regular expressions,
                     regexp, xp whoring, CGI, programming,
                     learning, tutorials, questions, answers,
                     examples, vroom, tim, node, experience,
                     votes, code

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And if I omit the -d flag, I get just over 64k of html that looks very like a normal Monastery Gates page.

Clever that. A non-browsable web page :)

Update: for me the above results are totally consistant on perlmonks.org and perlmonks.com from both browsers continually. Refreshing never results in any change.

However, using the IP address directly works fine in both browsers. At that point, I'm stumped unless it is something to do with DNS--but how, why?

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In reply to Re: Is anyone at perlmonks aware that... by BrowserUk
in thread Is anyone at perlmonks aware that... by 7stud

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