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Robert Menschel writes: > Hello Bob, > > Wednesday, July 28, 2004, 9:08:31 AM, you wrote: > > BMJ> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:17:09AM -0500, Smart,Dan wrote: > >> Bob: > >> How do you pick decent mirrors when configuring CPAN. If you pick a bad > >> one, CPAN takes forever to timeout and hit another. > > BMJ> Hmm. In my experience it takes only an eon, but not forever. :-) > > >> Do you or anyone else > >> have a suggestion on a group of robust, high-speed CPAN mirrors? My suggestion: use .edu ones near to you. Those academic network admins tend to be *good* ;) > Related question, since it seems to be on-topic for this thread, if not > the list, > > I tried to use CPAN last week to update something, and failed -- seems > the one and only server I had in my config was down. I tracked down > alternatives and replaced one with one, and got my update. > > What's the best way to update the list of servers used by CPAN? rm the "Config.pm" file somewhere in /usr/lib/perl5. (what a mess.) - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFBCE2MQTcbUG5Y7woRAhi4AKCH+KMKxx6rV2BTG1qsba1KUWzv0gCfeHvl zcd/SyHn9bwhX7vgSHfr550= =QZLa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
