Problem with DBD-ORacle8

[Janet C.]

Hello,
    I am trying to install DBD-Oracle8 using ppm. I get an error message as follows:

C:\>ppm install http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/5.6/DBD-Oracle8.ppd
Error: No valid repositories: Error: 500 Can't connect to
ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (connect: Unknown error) at
C:/Perl/site/lib/PPM/Repository.pm line 84 Error: 500 EOF instead of
reponse status line at
C:/Perl/site/lib/PPM/Repository.pm line 84


Any idea why this isn't working for me?

Janet.