in reply to is CPAN::WAIT dead?

If there is a fundamental problem causing the tests to fail, it must be a very recent one as there was a passing test on Thursday. The given hostname does not resolve for me so it could certainly be a recent DNS change. If the module and/or the tests are relying on a particular hostname to resolve then that is something easily broken, especially in a release from over 20 years ago.

So I'm wondering if WAIT is a dead horse

No idea, sorry. But it is certainly a very old horse. You could simply try setting $CPAN::Config->{wait_list} to a known, active server and try again. This should over-ride the default setting. Note that it looks like an arrayref.

Good luck.

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Re^2: is CPAN::WAIT dead?
by pope-indigent (Novice) on Feb 18, 2024 at 22:04 UTC
    Looks like the absence of the server was not the major problem ... there was an alarm set, there, so it just kills some time.

    I have not debugged it further, looks like some of the fuzzy search funcs are failing.

    I'd like to find a known active server, but I know of none. Maybe I'll come back to setting one up.

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      This may have made sense decades ago, unless you need to run a cpan 'offline', there's no sense in setting anything else up. Re^10: Using a Fetchrow with LWP. If you do need to create an offline mirror/darkpan see minicpan.

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