Comments on: Blogrotate #14: The Weekly Roundup of News for System Administrators http://www.pythian.com/news/7419/blogrotate-14-the-weekly-roundup-of-news-for-system-administrators/ News and views from Pythian DBAs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:01:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Yanick Champoux http://www.pythian.com/news/7419/blogrotate-14-the-weekly-roundup-of-news-for-system-administrators/#comment-399941 Yanick Champoux Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:50:11 +0000 http://www.pythian.com/news/?p=7419#comment-399941 > If you [..] had trouble accessing cpan mirrors recently Just to clarify, from the original blog entry and the various snippets of information I've gleaned from other sources it's the CPAN Tester site[1] that has been hit, not the CPAN mirrors[2]. Having the former slowed down is a pain in the neck of the Perl developer community, but wouldn't affect casual CPAN users in any way. And while Microsoft should be ashamed -- ignoring robots.txt? Is that how their mothers raised them? -- at last news a member of the Bing team was talking with the CPAN Testers to try to fix the issue. So with a minimum of good will, everything should be fixed before too longish. [1] http://cpantesters.org/ [2] http://www.cpan.org/ > If you [..] had trouble accessing cpan mirrors recently

Just to clarify, from the original blog entry and the various snippets of information I’ve gleaned from other sources it’s the CPAN Tester site[1] that has been hit, not the CPAN mirrors[2]. Having the former slowed down is a pain in the neck of the Perl developer community, but wouldn’t affect casual CPAN users in any way.

And while Microsoft should be ashamed — ignoring robots.txt? Is that how their mothers raised them? — at last news a member of the Bing team was talking with the CPAN Testers to try to fix the issue. So with a minimum of good will, everything should be fixed before too longish.

[1] http://cpantesters.org/
[2] http://www.cpan.org/

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