Re^2: Help my IT admin unblock PPM and CPAN, please.

I can communicate via FTP on the Win32 command line to various places. There is no passive command listed under help for Win32 FTP daemon. I can do get via mini Perl script using LWP::Simple. Using the MSIE browser I can see the PPM repository web pages.

I just keep getting Not found responses when I call get in regular CPAN and when PPM tries to fetch the packlist.

I've ordered the book for Wireshark as I can't seem to make much from all the tons of info it delivers. This mystery is really quite frustrating. Grrr.

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Re^3: Help my IT admin unblock PPM and CPAN, please. by JavaFan (Canon) on Apr 22, 2010 at 21:04 UTC
I can communicate via FTP on the Win32 command line to various places. Including the CPAN mirror your CPAN client is connecting to? How is your CPAN client configured? How is it configured to fetch things? Which CPAN mirror(s) is it using? Using the MSIE browser I can see the PPM repository web pages. Do you run the browser from the same machine you're using the CPAN client from?	[reply]