Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / September 2005

anyone besides me having trouble accessing the mirrors?

I've been rebuilding my iBook when I can spare ten minutes here and a
half hour there. I installed perl 5.8.7 several weeks back under
/usr/local and started CPAN with the path set to look at /usr/local/bin
before /usr/bin, then remembered I wanted to install gnupg first, so I
aborted and installed gnupg today and tried to "o conf init". Got this
at the end, about two hours ago:

--------------------terminal output--------------------
You have no /usr/local/share/perl/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY
  I'm trying to fetch one
LWP not available
CPAN: Net::FTP loaded ok
Fetching with Net::FTP:
  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY
Couldn't cwd pub/CPAN at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CPAN.pm line 2260,
<STDIN> line 28.
Fetching with Net::FTP
  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz
Couldn't cwd pub/CPAN at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CPAN.pm line 2260,
<STDIN> line 28.
Issuing "/usr/bin/ftp -n"
Trying 209.120.136.27...
Connected to ftp.cpan.ddns.develooper.com.
220-=(<*>)=-.:. (( Welcome to PureFTPd 1.0.11 )) .:.-=(<*>)=-
220-You are user number 1 of 500 allowed
220-Local time is now 08:29 and the load is 0.03. Server port: 21.
220-Only anonymous FTP is allowed here
220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
331 Any password will work
230 Any password will work
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
Local directory now /usr/local/share/perl/.cpan/sources
250 OK. Current directory is /
250 OK. Current directory is /pub
550 Can't change directory to CPAN: No such file or directory
200 TYPE is now 8-bit binary
local: MIRRORED.BY remote: MIRRORED.BY
500 Unknown command
227 Entering Passive Mode (209,120,136,27,156,117)
550 Can't open MIRRORED.BY: No such file or directory
221-Goodbye. You uploaded 0 and downloaded 0 kbytes.
221 Logout - CPU time spent: 0.000 seconds.
Bad luck... Still failed!
Can't access URL ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.

Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file () are
valid.
The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/'

Could not fetch MIRRORED.BY
CPAN.pm needs at least one URL where it can fetch CPAN files from.