Before installing CPAN, I first traceroute'd the various mirrors listed to see which were the closest, and selected them.

Now, it seems that everytime I look for a module, either the mirrors are opaque (unavailable) or don't have the module.

  1. Am I doing something wrong?
  2. Where / how can I change the CPAN mirror sites on my machine to eliminate ones which are 'unhelpful'? (See output below)
  3. Is there a module on CPAN that looks up the current mirror sites and then tests them to see which ones are 'alive' and closest (traceroute) to me?

cpan> install Time::HiRes 
Fetching with LWP:
  ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/lang/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[400] message[FTP return code 425]
Fetching with Net::FTP:
  ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/lang/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Couldn't fetch 01mailrc.txt.gz from mirrors.rcn.net
Fetching with LWP:....

Couldn't fetch 01mailrc.txt.gz from

[download]

Finally...success. Thanks.

In reply to CPAN - Post Installation Modification & Mirror Sites by McDuff

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