in reply to Is anyone at perlmonks aware that...

No problems here, both on the office network and on my home network.

Did you try a ping or a tracert to perlmonks.org?

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James