Hi,

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 on VMware player under Windows. I am behind a proxy, and it is well defined in the Ubunto virtual machine under System>Preferences>Network Proxy. I can surf the web with no problems using the browser in the VM.

I am trying to install GBrowse as explained in http://gmod.org/wiki/GBrowse_Ubuntu_HOWTO. Installing Apache, Apache-modperl, MySQL and the rest of the prereqs was a breeze, but when I start sudo perl gbrowse_netinstall.pl I got

*** Installing Perl files needed for a net-based install ***
Dispatching deprecated method 'CPAN::Config::load' to CPAN::HandleConf
+ig
Dispatching deprecated method 'CPAN::Config::commit' to CPAN::HandleCo
+nfig
commit: wrote '/etc/perl/CPAN/Config.pm'
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9719)
Warning: no success downloading '/home/vadmin/.cpan/sources/authors/01
+mailrc.txt.gz.tmp18577'. Giving up on it. at /usr/share/perl/5.10/CPA
+N/Index.pm line 225
Fetching with LWP:
  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[read timeout]

Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O /home/vadmin/.cpan/sources/authors/01mai
+lrc.txt.tmp18577" to get
    "http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz"
--2010-06-28 12:26:11--  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt
+.gz
Resolving www.perl.org... 207.171.7.63
Connecting to www.perl.org|207.171.7.63|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
[download]

and it lingers like that with no change...

I entered http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz in my browser address basr and I can see the file. I tried wget http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz from the shall and I get the same

http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Resolving www.perl.org... 207.171.7.63
Connecting to www.perl.org|207.171.7.63|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
[download]

I tried wget http://www.perlmonks.org/ and also got

http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Resolving www.perl.org... 207.171.7.63
Connecting to www.perl.org|207.171.7.63|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response.
[download]

What's going on here?

UPDATE

Following http://davesource.com/Solutions/20040620.CPAN-Timeouts.html I set ftp_int_passive => 1in ./etc/perl/Net/libnet.cfg, but this does not seem to make a difference.

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