Thanks for the replies.

Re: rebooting, I should have mentioned in the original post that someone else on a different network confirmed the problem before I came to the Monks. So no reboot.

Re: modules vs all, indeed that works! How odd.

Re: 42 minutes, I appreciate the volunteer effort and I don't expect people to Drop Everything(TM) and fix it right this second; but if I ran a site as popular as search.cpan.org I'd want to know ASAP if it's got a headache.

Re: docs, yeah, me too, it's kinda scary how much I've come to rely on CPAN and Google to be "the Perl library" and "the Internet" respectively.

So, back to the original question: how do you think CPAN service problems should best be communicated?

Maybe it's as simple as using a different address for problem reports. Or maybe we should pitch in for professional service monitoring for the Perl services we rely on (whatever "we" means, but I'd pitch in for sure).

In reply to Re^2: Where should one report search.cpan.org breakage? by frostman
in thread Where should one report search.cpan.org breakage? by frostman

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