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What is Devel::MOD?

Anonymous Monk — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:05:31 +0000

perl -h says: -dt :MOD run program under debugger or module Devel::MOD But Perl doesn't ship Devel::MOD and it doesn't seem to be on the CPAN....

Re^2: Implicit references? module -> feature -> pragma -> "Perl8" ?

LanX — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:56:44 +0000

That's true, but you are only seeing the mine @arr case, where it was until recently impossible to change the underlying \@arr reference. If you want to also cover the mine $ar...

Re^4: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org

LanX — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:52:26 +0000

Experiences seem to vary, since my last post� some days ago I only saw Error 503 Backend unavailable, connection timeout Backend unavailable, connection timeout Er...

Re^3: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org

Corion — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:24:44 +0000

I haven't done anything, but I suspect that either Leo or Olaf hit a config that priorizes logged-in users over anonymous connections. Personally, I'm still reading up on Varnish Configurat...

Re^2: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org

hippo — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:03:44 +0000

Whatever it was that you did in the last hour or so has had a really beneficial effect. Thanks. 🦛 ...

Re: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org

Corion — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:55:28 +0000

Currently accessing the site is (again) hard, because logged-in traffic does not have priority over anonymous traffic. We are looking at ways to tweak the setup so that logged-in users get access t...

Re: Implicit references? module -> feature -> pragma -> "Perl8" ?

jo37 — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:29:33 +0000

Isn't a language extension for a rather rare use case kind of overengineered? Wouldn't a read-only reference be sufficient and at the same time more flexible and better readable? Explicitly cre...

Re^3: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org

hippo — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:35:12 +0000

It might also be the case that all the bad bots are "doing a Yahoo" and caching the old DNS for much longer than the TTL and therefore still hitting the origin servers directly. Might be worth aski...

Re^2: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org

Corion — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:59:11 +0000

These errors come when the backend is overloaded. This problem still happens, since now the TCP ports are not exhausted anymore, but the bots are still hitting the site a lot and the cachin...

Re: What is Devel::MOD?

Corion — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:06:34 +0000

:MOD is to be read as a placeholder. So if you run perl -d:Acme Perl will go and look for a module Devel::Acme....

Re^2: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org

roho — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:42:15 +0000

I am seeing the same error message. Error 503 Resource temporarily unavailable Resource temporarily unavailable Error 54113 Details: cache-pdk-kpdk2140043-PDK 1778819728 1898921539 ...

Re^2: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org

eyepopslikeamosquito — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:37:02 +0000

Yes, I'm also seeing the same error quite a lot. For example: Error 503 Backend unavailable, connection timeout Backend unavailable, connection timeout Error ...

Re: Perlmonks.com and Perlmonks.net now redirect to Perlmonks.org

syphilis — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:09:04 +0000

If you notice any adverse changes, please post a reply here. When attempting to access a node, I intermittently get: Error 503 Backend unavailable, connection timeout Backend ...