No proxy. I've got IPTables running on all machines, but the OUTPUT chain is open. Normal ftp and everything is working well. Here's an output from o conf (on a different machine than before, but they both have the same problem): 
cpan> o conf
CPAN::Config options from /etc/perl/CPAN/Config.pm:
    commit             Commit changes to disk
    defaults           Reload defaults from disk
    init               Interactive setting of all options

    build_cache        10
    build_dir          /var/cache/cpan/build
    cache_metadata     1
    cpan_home          /var/cache/cpan/
    cpan_version_check 1
    dontload_hash
    ftp                /usr/bin/ftp
    ftp_proxy
    getcwd             cwd
    gpg                /usr/bin/gpg
    gzip               /bin/gzip
    histfile           /var/cache/cpan/histfile
    histsize           100
    http_proxy
    inactivity_timeout 0
    index_expire       1
    inhibit_startup_message 0
    keep_source_where  /var/cache/cpan/sources
    lynx               /usr/bin/lynx
    make               /usr/bin/make
    make_arg
    make_install_arg
    makepl_arg
    ncftpget           /usr/bin/ncftpget
    no_proxy
    pager              /usr/bin/less
    prerequisites_policy ask
    scan_cache         atstart
    shell              /bin/bash
    tar                /bin/tar
    term_is_latin      1
    unzip              /usr/bin/unzip
    urllist
        ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/languages/perl/CPAN
        ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
        ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/languages/perl/cpan/
        ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/CPAN/
    wget               /usr/bin/wget

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Actually, it is ncftpget, wget and lynx CPAN falls back to after a trail and error period with LWP and Net::FTP. Not that I really think LWP is any worse, but it is not any better either.

As for HTTP mirrors, I haven't tried one, when you ask. I'll add one and see what happens. Update: No improvement using a HTTP mirror.

In reply to Re: Re: Problems accessing CPAN with the shell by Kjetil
in thread Problems accessing CPAN with the shell by Kjetil

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