On 26/09/2007, Noel Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > Take a look: > _______________________________________________________ > ... > cpan> install Bundle::CPAN > CPAN: Storable loaded ok > Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata > Warning: Found only 0 objects in /root/.cpan/Metadata > CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok > Fetching with LWP: > ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: connect: timeout] > Fetching with Net::FTP: > ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > > Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get > ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > --11:30:29-- > ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > => `-' > Resolving ftp.perl.org... 200.14.80.77 > Connecting to ftp.perl.org|200.14.80.77|:21... failed: Connection timed out. > Retrying. > .... >
Hi Noel: For a sanity check, can you use lynx or links to try browsing to ftp://ftp.perl.org from that same Gentoo box? It looks like a simple network connectivity issue to me. -- Dan Scott Laurentian University
