something wrong in CPAN search?

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

Today I tried to search for a module in CPAN and I didn't get the usual results.

It seems that the search with mode "all" doesn't work and the search for authors is broken as well.

Example

This search for DBI (http://search.cpan.org/search?query=dbi&mode=module) works.

If I don't specify "Modules", it returns a "no matches" result. http://search.cpan.org/search?query=dbi&mode=all

As for the authors, you may try http://search.cpan.org/search?query=jeffa&mode=author with still no matches. But of course JEFFA exists.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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Re: something wrong in CPAN search?
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Jul 07, 2003 at 13:25 UTC

http://kobesearch.cpan.org

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It's referred to by both http://www.cpan.org/misc/ZCAN.html and http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html (both great reads).

AFAIK, it's always available (at least every time search.cpan.org is down). There is also JEFFA site:cpan.org You can use [kobe://] in place of [cpan://] around here.

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Re: something wrong in CPAN search?
by Callum (Chaplain) on Jul 07, 2003 at 13:27 UTC

http://kobesearch.cpan.org/

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