[OPEN-ILS-DEV] PROBLEM DOWNLOADING PERL MODULES

[Jason Stephenson]

Noel Goodman 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.

[Snip.]

Looks like a firewall issue to me. The FTP server normally tries to 
connect back to your PC on some random port to send you the data. If a 
firewall is blocking connections to your PC on random ports, then the 
transfer will fail. Time outs are a typical type of this failure.

Try using passive mode FTP where the server sends the data back down the 
control channel rather than trying to make a connection to your PC. I do 
believe this is one of the configurable options in CPAN.

Cheers,
Jason