Saturday, November 14, 2009

Solution to CPAN hangs on Fetching with LWP:

When I tried to fetch stuff with CPAN it started hanging right away
Fetching with LWP:
  ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
This is likely happening because you are behind a NAT or firewall, and you need to do ftp in passive mode.
Find your perls libnet.cfg file: 
% locate libnet.cfg
/etc/perl/Net/libnet.cfg
Edit that file and change the ftp_int_passive setting to 1.
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2 comments:

  1. MichaelAugust 22, 2012 at 3:22 PM

    Or set the option to 0, if you are not behind an NAT router, and it does not work with 1.

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  2. Jon SkarpeteigJanuary 7, 2013 at 4:09 PM

    If it doesn't work with 1, then the ftp server would be incorrectly configured.

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