Re: cpan.org Metadata and modules files not being updated

Hi James (and everyone),

Sorry about the head-banging, that was my fault!

The CPAN index files on www.cpan.org were stale for most of today, for =
users in North America and Asia (in Europe it should have been okay).

Yesterday I added two new backends for the Fastly CDN as part of =
decommissioning the old primary cluster (going from two to three =
origins). The CPAN sync into the web server storage wasn't set up on the =
new clusters, so they were serving a static copy from when they were =
first provisioned. The old working backend had fresh data, but requests =
hitting the new ones got stale index files.

We usually catch this with monitoring, but not all the monitoring is in =
place yet for the new clusters. There's been a lot of work getting the =
new infrastructure up and it slipped through.

I've switched the CDN back to only the working backend while I get the =
sync sorted on the new clusters.

If you were seeing "this index file is 39 days old" warnings from the =
cpan shell, or modules not showing updated versions, that was this.



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