It's not something we (Robert, Graham & Ask) are in control of, but if you were wondering why search.cpan.org hasn't been getting new module uploads quickly lately it's because of problems with the hardware running the FUnet.fi master CPAN mirror. It's making all of CPAN "not move" so to speak.
PAUSE is still running and taking uploads and no data is being lost anywhere, just a little delayed.
Last I heard it should get better sometime this week.
Posted by Ask Bjørn Hansen on November 28, 2005 at 21:03 in cpansearch | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
For a long time Search CPAN has used the WAIT module to provide searching of POD documents. Today we started testing the use of Swish-e. Try it and let us know what you think
Posted by Graham Barr on October 16, 2005 at 17:23 in cpansearch | Permalink | Comments (3)
Many people have not been ablt to find the RSS feed for CPAN uploads that search has been providing for quite sometime. The only link was in the FAQ. It was also only in RSS 0.91 and did not contain much information.
Well now there is a new feed at search.cpan.org/uploads.rdf which is in the header of each page so discovery tools can find it. And there is a link on the recent upload page
Posted by Graham Barr on July 19, 2005 at 18:43 in cpansearch | Permalink | Comments (4)
I flipped the switch, so cpansearch.perl.org/search.cpan.org is now using the EU mirror for European users.
(see the search.cpan.org mirror post from yesterday)
Thanks again to Digital Craftsmen. We're also running one of our "geodns" thingies on their server now.
Posted by Ask Bjørn Hansen on May 12, 2005 at 13:24 in cpansearch | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Over the last week Graham and I have been setting up the box provided by Digital Craftsmen; our first mirror not hosted on the perl.org infrastructure. We are planning a mirror in Japan and another US mirror too (but haven't gotten the hardware for it yet).
It's not on the search.cpan.org name yet, but (Very Alpha-ish) at cpansearch-geo.perl.org. If you are in Europe you should reach the new mirror, if you are anywhere else you should reach one of the perl.org hosted boxes (with the "hardware by bizrate" logo). The cpansearch-geo.perl.org name will go away when we are done testing.
Please try it out and let me know if you are having trouble with it (email ask@perl.org).
Our geography-aware DNS server, pgeodns, is a bit naively assuming that all of Europe will have better access to the UK mirror than to the West Coast US mirror.
In the process of setting it up, I updated pgeodns a bit, so if I made a mistake or two it might impact the ftp.perl.org and ftp.cpan.org names too, so please let me know if you are seeing any abnormalities with the DNS for those too.
pgeodns is in a private svn repository, but Robert says he'll move it to another one for me any day now. :-)
Posted by Ask Bjørn Hansen on May 11, 2005 at 20:44 in cpansearch | Permalink | Comments (1)