stevieb, thanks for the reply. My setup, using cpanplus for installing modules to CygwinPerl, has just used the default. We no longer set up remote mirrors for cpan clients, whether they are are CPAN.pm, CPANPLUS, or cpanminus. As discussed at log.perl.org, here's what happened:

Furthermore, www.cpan.org was pointed at a global CDN, meaning that traffic could be routed efficiently without client configuration. The CDN also meant that users wouldn’t need to worry about out of date or down mirrors.

I have to admit that I don't know what a CDN is, but the meaning is clear enough. A remote mirror that's slow to update shouldn't be a problem. However, my local mirror could be. I'm going to check now.

Here's my settings; one uses s mirrors in the cpanplus shell:

CPAN Terminal> s mirrors

Readonly list of mirrors (in order of preference):

        1 http://192.168.1.7/minicpan
        2 http://www.cpan.org

Yes, my local mirror at 192.168.1.7 was out of date. I would like to punch myself. I need to make a cron job or something similar for this mirror. Sorry, everyone.

    — Soren

Sep 08, 2025 at 17:46 UTC

In reply to Re^2: Released modules sometimes newer on metacpan.org than on cpan.org?! by Intrepid
in thread Released modules sometimes newer on metacpan.org than on cpan.org?! by Intrepid

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