I was referring to CPAN/Config.pm, which is a quite different file from Config.pm. The file Config.pm contains the Perl configuration, while CPAN/Config.pm contains the configuration for CPAN.pm. Rereading your error message, you don't use CPAN though, you download your stuff yourself. You can either edit your .netrc file, or simply modify your ftp script to use passive mode:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::FTP;

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("ftp.mirror.ac.uk", Debug => 1)
  or die "Cannot connect to ftp.mirror.ac.uk: $@";

$ftp->login("anonymous",'-anonymous@')
  or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->message;

$ftp->cwd("/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/C/CF
+/CFRANKS/")
  or die "Cannot change working directory ", $ftp->message;

$ftp->pasv(1);

$ftp->get("HTML-Menu-DateTime-0.94.tar.gz")
  or die "get failed ", $ftp->message;

$ftp->quit;

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My guess is, that your .netrc file is not set up properly for your local Perl, or you don't have Net::Config installed. But you should set the passive mode for ftp connections by default anyway.

In reply to Re^4: perl network / internet access problems by Corion
in thread perl network / internet access problems by fireartist

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