or download this
$ ping -c8 search.cpan.org
PING cpansearch.perl.org (194.106.223.155): 56 data bytes
...
--- cpansearch.perl.org ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 312.850/313.330/314.191/0.403 ms