Re: Problems accessing CPAN with the shell

This fixes the problem for me. Do a:

export FTP_PASSIVE=1
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before starting the CPAN shell. From the Net::FTP documentation:

Passive - If set to a non-zero value then all data transfers will be done using passive mode. This is not usually required except for some dumb servers, and some firewall configurations. This can also be set by the environment variable FTP_PASSIVE.

Liz

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Re^2: Problems accessing CPAN with the shell by Anonymous Monk on Jun 27, 2008 at 08:37 UTC
I had the very same issue with my cpan shell, and what do you know, passive mode did the trick. Thank you very much, now I can get back to worry about real issues :) -- Take	[reply]