On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:07:13PM -0700, Jonathan Leffler wrote: > OK - slightly off-topic, but not wholly irrelevant, either... > > Last night (2006-10-23) I was getting some puzzling results from CPANPLUS, > and eventually found that the files at ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN (such as > the three control files used by CPANPLUS and CPAN modules) were dated early > October (say 8th October) instead of 22nd or 23rd October. > > I reconfigured to use some alternative locations in preference to > ftp.cpan.org, and a whole bunch of previously anomalous behaviours (wrong > versions, missing modules) > > Is this a known problem? Is ftp.cpan.org known to be out of date, or is it > (or was it) some sort of accident?
I think ftp.cpan.org is a dynamic dns alias that resolves to a mirror 'it thinks' is 'close' to you. This may be useful: http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/henkp/mirmon/cpan.html Tim.
