[Pdx-pm] unhappy CPAN on OS X

Austin Schutz tex at off.org
Thu Oct 30 02:52:16 CST 2003


On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:51:18PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:29:53PM -0800, Tom Phoenix wrote:
> > > It appears to not be able to use LWP or Net::FTP to fetch tarballs, but
> > > it takes *forever* to figure this out before it drops to using vanilla
> > > ftp.
> > 
> > It sounds as if vanilla FTP is configured to get around your
> > firewall/proxy setup, but Net::FTP and LWP might not be. Maybe?
> 
> Specificly, Net::Config::NetConfig{ftp_ext_passive} and ftp_int_passive.
> Why Net::Config defaults to false for these is beyond me.
> 
	Some (aged) ftp servers don't support passive mode. Active mode
is traditionally default. Well, you asked. Err, come to think of it,
I guess you didn't.

	Austin



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