Looks like the domain perl.com was put on hold at the registry.
Anybody have any idea what's up with that? Just curious, and hoping to see it again soon. :)
-Matt
Re:Record updated NOW
mattriffle on 2007-08-23T15:52:54
I believe that's just Network Solution's "last time we updated whois" field, but not specific to that entry.Verisign's whois shows an update yesterday, and that it's on client hold. The registration anniversary was the other week, but the expiration is in 2009, so I don't think it's an "expired but autorenewed" type situation. But, who knows?
:) -Matt
Some modules, e.g. URI, try live network testing and assume that perl.com will exist.
It happened to me this morning when I was updating some Bundle or other and it took me a while to figure out why the test was failing. When I finally opened the URL in question in a browser and got a 404 error, it was then pretty clear what the problem was.
Re:And it causes fun test failures
Alias on 2007-08-23T23:09:11
Naughty naughty modules, time to fix some bugs then.
FWIW, LWP::Online does something similar, but uses a collection of 3 or 4 major sites (google, yahoo, microsoft, cnn) to determine "I CAN HAVE INTARWEB?" but it tolerates a couple of them going down...
