Like Corion said, this is possibly due to a firewall or proxy which isn't allowing active FTP connections. ICMP ping isn't really good for anything much across the internet, to test whether FTP works from your machine you could execute

ftp ftp.perl.org

And run through the ftp exchange by hand, if it hangs whenever you want to change directory or download a file then the problem is a your firewall/gateway/proxy. In this case you could try using passive FTP, do

export FTP_PASSIVE=1

On the command line and then try the CPAN download again (also see perldoc CPAN for more details on this subject).


All dogma is stupid.

In reply to Re: Module Install Problems by tirwhan
in thread Module Install Problems by coolboarderguy

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