How do you do that?
By adding HTTP URLs in the URL-list. The main tool to manage that list is "o conf" in the CPAN shell.

You can see the current contents (under "urllist") with just "o conf", or, more limited in output, with "o conf urllist".

You can replace the whole URL-list with, for example (this is the contents I have, which must have been put there by default): 

o conf urllist http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN http://cpan.perl.org

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You can also add a URL to the existing list with shift and push, like this: 

o conf urllist push http://cpan.perl.org
o conf urllist unshift http://cpan.perl.org

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or drop the first or last entry resp. with 
o conf urllist shift
o conf urllist pop

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You must save the changes with 

o conf commit

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or you can rollback (after a disastrous mistake) with 
o conf defaults

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HTH.

In reply to Re^3: Problem Starting CPAN Shell with ftp.perl.org by bart
in thread Problem Starting CPAN Shell with ftp.perl.org by monkfan

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