The CPAN documentation has a section concerning firewalls, likely if you read that, ascertain what sort of firewall you have and take the following advice it'll work. If in doubt contact your network/sys admin.
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see your cpan configuration settings
run this on ur cpan shell
o conf init urllist
and see the url list
also do "connect to internet ok" as your cpan settings
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o conf init urllist
Did you try running this, it doesn't display the urllist values as you suggest ("and see the url list") that would be o conf urllist, the command you suggest will initialise the urllist settings, prompt the user to connect to the internet so that cpan can suggest some mirrors or alternatively let them supply their own. Regardless, this won't help if they can't get internet access due to firewall restrictions, unless they host a cpan mirror accessable to them on their internal network.
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Since you mentioned that you're on a corporate network at your job, it's possible that in addition to a corporate firewall, your employer may also have some proxy server(s) that you would need to route your traffic through. If that's the case, you'll need to get that info added to the CPAN configuration or else it won't get to the outside world to get the modules that you want to install.
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