CPAN broken in Panther

[Hannes]

Are there others having problems with CPAN in 10.3. ? None of the file 
transfer methods seems to work and everything times out on more than 10 
different ftp archives. I already followed the instructions from one 
BSD mailing list:

<http://news.gw.com/comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc/37614>

but it only skips the initial retrieval errors, and just copying all 
perl modules in the .cpan directory outside of CPAN just to install 
them from the cpan shell doesn't seem to be the solution. I know that 
lynx, wget, ftp etc are working outside of cpan....

I would be grateful for your advise or pointers to the archives (where 
I must have missed it then).

thanks/h

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