Oh wisest monks! It is with a great pleasure that I here report back to you, telling with great thankfullness that by the good fortune brought by your advice I was able to go through the gates of proxies and other internet mysteries at $work! ;-)

The story of how I came by the proxy address is too long to tell. Suffice to say that it wasn't easy and got solved by a quote of serendipity. It was a big bliss to see CPAN downloading and installing packages.

Again, thanks to you all!