in reply to Re^5: Problem installing CPAN modules
in thread Problem installing CPAN modules

First, thanks for your patience!

Second, it still does not work. The fetching still lingers forever. It is the same for simple wget for some arbitrary site. as said before, surfing with firefox works perfectly. Could it be related to the passive thread I mentioned in the original post?

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Re^7: Problem installing CPAN modules
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 28, 2010 at 09:34 UTC

    As passive_ftp only relates to ftp, but you're only showing HTTP URLs, I doubt that this relates.

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      So are we out of ideas? Oh dear... Trying to add extra info: I can ftp remote servers from shell...
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        I'm not sure why you think that ftp is relevant to the problem at hand.

        Personally, I would look with a network sniffer like Wireshark at what (or whether) network traffic leaves the machine, and whether it tries to use the proxy or not.

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