On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Morbus Iff wrote: > I can confirm - just shut off the internal firewall (System Prefereces > > Sharing), and cpan works fine. I've not had time to look into it further.
That sounds... ...brave. Enabling relevant ports would probably be more prudent, and if setting passive mode FTP did the trick, then *not* enabling extra ports would probably be even more prudent. In any case, I've had no CPAN problems on two different machines running Panther. Maybe something else is funny with your network setup; could you try using CPAN on, say, a roughly-similarly configured Linux box running on the same network? Or a Mac runnign Jaguar? It may be that these will have issues for the same reason -- whatever it may be -- that your Panther machine is having issues. -- Chris Devers
