[OPEN-ILS-DEV] PROBLEM DOWNLOADING PERL MODULES

[Dan Scott]

On 26/09/2007, Noel Goodman <goldenchild_gt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hope I'm not a pain to everyone :D
> I'm not getting the perl modules to download. The following occurs every
> time I run through the given sequence in the guide.  The connection keeps
> failing.
>
> Take a look:
> _______________________________________________________
> ...
> cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
> CPAN: Storable loaded ok
> Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
> Warning: Found only 0 objects in /root/.cpan/Metadata
> CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
> Fetching with LWP:
>   ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: connect: timeout]
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
>   ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
>
> Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get
>     ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> --11:30:29--
> ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
>            => `-'
> Resolving ftp.perl.org... 200.14.80.77
> Connecting to ftp.perl.org|200.14.80.77|:21... failed: Connection timed out.
> Retrying.
> ....
>

Hi Noel:

For a sanity check, can you use lynx or links to try browsing to
ftp://ftp.perl.org from that same Gentoo box? It looks like a simple
network connectivity issue to me.

-- 
Dan Scott
Laurentian University