I went to look up a module just now on http://search.cpan.org by using the CPAN nodelet. I found that the site was down because it had been attacked and is being put back together.

I can't figure out why anyone would want to attack a site that's providing a valuable public service like this. Wouldn't it be more amusing and useful to attack the site of a company that's doing socially or ethically questionable things (there are a long list)?

And to think that the time spent attacking search.cpan.org could have been spent learning Perl or some other language... sigh...

One suggestion: given the apparently large number of Perlmonks who manage web sites, wouldn't it be possible for someone to offer to mirror valuable resources like this? The mirroring of CPAN is one example of the Perl community coming together to protect a shared resource.

update: Sorry, I missed the discussion on CB (I don't use it). The post just came out of frustration with the antics of the annoying wankers who do stuff like this. Added my suggestion to try to make node a little more discussion-worthy.

In reply to search.cpan.org site attacked? Why? by bikeNomad

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