$ perl -MCPAN -e shell /home/monkfan/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm initialized. CPAN is the world-wide archive of perl resources. It consists of about 100 sites that all replicate the same contents all around the globe. Many countries have at least one CPAN site already. The resources found on CPAN are easily accessible with the CPAN.pm module. If you want to use CPAN.pm, you have to configure it properly. If you do not want to enter a dialog now, you can answer 'no' to this question and I'll try to autoconfigure. (Note: you can revisit this dialog anytime later by typing 'o conf init' at the cpan prompt.) Are you ready for manual configuration? [yes] # ...EVERYTHING GOES SMOOTHLY UNTIL..... If you're accessing the net via proxies, you can specify them in the CPAN configuration or via environment variables. The variable in the $CPAN::Config takes precedence. Your ftp_proxy? Your http_proxy? Your no_proxy? You have no /home/ewijaya/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY I'm trying to fetch one CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY Fetching with Net::FTP ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz Trying with "/usr/bin/lynx -source" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY Looking up ftp.perl.org Making FTP connection to ftp.perl.org Alert!: Unable to connect to FTP host. Looking up ftp.perl.org Making FTP connection to ftp.perl.org Alert!: Unable to connect to FTP host. Can't Access `ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY' Alert!: Unable to access document. lynx: Can't access startfile Trying with "/usr/bin/lynx -source" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz Looking up ftp.perl.org Making FTP connection to ftp.perl.org Alert!: Unable to connect to FTP host. Looking up ftp.perl.org Making FTP connection to ftp.perl.org Alert!: Unable to connect to FTP host. Can't Access `ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz' Alert!: Unable to access document. lynx: Can't access startfile Trying with "/usr/bin/ncftpget" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY Could not connect to ftp.perl.org -- try again later: Connection timed out. Could not connect to ftp.perl.org -- try again later: Connection timed out. Could not connect to ftp.perl.org -- try again later: Connection timed out. ncftpget: cannot open ftp.perl.org: could not connect to remote host, but can try again. Trying with "/usr/bin/ncftpget" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz Could not connect to ftp.perl.org -- try again later: Connection timed out. Could not connect to ftp.perl.org -- try again later: Connection timed out. Could not connect to ftp.perl.org -- try again later: Connection timed out. ncftpget: cannot open ftp.perl.org: could not connect to remote host, but can try again. Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY --15:57:57-- ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY => `-' Resolving ftp.perl.org... 163.143.1.21 Connecting to ftp.perl.org|163.143.1.21|:21... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --16:01:07-- ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY (try: 2) => `-' Connecting to ftp.perl.org|163.143.1.21|:21... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --16:04:18-- ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY (try: 3) => `-' Connecting to ftp.perl.org|163.143.1.21|:21... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --16:07:30-- ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY (try: 4) => `-' Connecting to ftp.perl.org|163.143.1.21|:21... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --16:10:43-- ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY (try: 5) => `-' Connecting to ftp.perl.org|163.143.1.21|:21... #...THIS KEPT GOING ON AND ON ENDLESSLY....