How does the CPAN multiplexer work?
Not nearly as much dark magic and certainly no virgins, scantily clad or not…er…I mean… The CPAN Multiplexer is the creation of Tom Christiansen and it lives at http://www.perl.com/CPAN which will present you with a menu of available mirrors and links to the source code if you wish to see how it really works. You may use a trailing slash on the above URL to have it try and direct you to the nearest mirror. The multiplexer attempts to map the tail part of the resolved DNS name of the client to the closest possible CPAN site, e.g. An *.ac.uk address will be directed to a mirror in the .uk domain, but an unresolvable numeric address or a *.com will be directed to the perl.com mirror.
Related Questions
- html There are two questions to look at: * How do I go about maintaining a module when the author is unresponsive? * How do I adopt or take over a module already on CPAN?
- How do I install a module and all its dependencies from the commandline, without being prompted for anything, despite my CPAN configuration (or lack thereof)?
- How does the CPAN multiplexer work?
