syphilis has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

For the last 2 or 3 days, whenever I try to browse to http://search.cpan.org I get (almost instantly):

The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable.
Please try again later.
(port reminder 9080)

 Are others able to reproduce this ?
Does anyone know what it means ?
How temporary is "temporary" likely to be ? ... weeks ? ... years ? ... millennia ? ... the lifetime of the universe ?

I tried connecting to http://search.cpan.org:9080 but that just times out.
I'm getting the same message on both IE (Windows 7) and Firefox (Ubuntu-14.04) - both of which connect through the same router.

Anyway, I'll just have to change my IE home page from search.cpan.org to search.metacpan.org.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re: [OT] search.cpan.org connectivity
by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 18, 2014 at 13:12 UTC

    "search.cpan.org" is many machines, using geolocation DNS to direct you to a close mirror (I think). So whatever mirror you get, it seems to be stale/unavailable.

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Re: [OT] search.cpan.org connectivity
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Dec 18, 2014 at 16:36 UTC

    Rob, that was happening to me all day yesterday. Today it is fine for me.

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      Today it is fine for me

      Still the same problem here. Maybe it's a mirror issue.
      If I can be bothered, I might try to find a way to switch mirrors. Not sure how to do that while I can't connect to search.cpan.org - I guess it might be do-able via cpan.org.
      Otherwise I'll just use metacpan.

      Thanks guys.

      Cheers,
      Rob
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Re: [OT] search.cpan.org connectivity
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 18, 2014 at 13:26 UTC

    I strongly recommend that you disable javascript for cpan.org.

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