>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.
Passive FTP is enabled in the GUI portion, but that doesn't carry over, apparently, to anything that LWP can read. Setting the environment variable that Elizabeth mentioned works fine. >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 I have a Mac running Jaguar with the same Internet connection and the firewall enabled, and cpan works fine - it's strictly a Panther thing. Incidentally, I do have a SuSE 8.2 box that had similar problems with the firewall and CPAN - prior to knowing that env var, I modified the firewall instead. Funnily, I'm a syadmin at the ISP I get my connection from ;) -- Morbus Iff ( masochism-oriented recombinant bot (unlisted series) ) Technical: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus
