Noel Goodman 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.
[Snip.]
Looks like a firewall issue to me. The FTP server normally tries to
connect back to your PC on some random port to send you the data. If a
firewall is blocking connections to your PC on random ports, then the
transfer will fail. Time outs are a typical type of this failure.
Try using passive mode FTP where the server sends the data back down the
control channel rather than trying to make a connection to your PC. I do
believe this is one of the configurable options in CPAN.
Cheers,
Jason
