[sf-perl] installing CPAN inside firewall

[Joshua McAdams]

> My Current Job (tm) includes a FreeBSD box under the desk. Said box is
> running Perl 5.005 and is accessible via VPN.

Is 'said box' the only box that you have access to within the system?
Possibly you can figure out how to use CPAN::Mini or, my favorite,
CPAN::Mini::Inject to create a mirror that your under-the-desk box can
reach via FTP?  That is how I used to circumvent security ;)