CPAN problem

[Tom Phoenix]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Tom Keller wrote:

> Fetching with LWP:
>    ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
>    ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz

Looks as if fetching with LWP didn't work. Maybe colorado.edu was down, or
maybe there's something wrong with your LWP installation.

> Can't call method "sockport" on an undefined value at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/FTP.pm line 789.

Looks as if fetching the same thing with Net::FTP didn't work either.
Hmmm.... CPAN.pm should probably have handled that error more gracefully.

Can you get that file with an ordinary program, like a web browser,
without difficulty? If so, either it's a transient error (like: too many
concurrent users of the colorado.edu FTP server), or something is wrong
with Net::FTP, LWP, or something that they both depend upon.

If you can't get it, I'd say that taking colorado.edu out of your sites
list would be a good step.

And since you seem to be using 5.6.0, consider trying 5.6.1 - if it
doesn't fix this bug for you, at least it should fix some others!

Good luck!

--Tom

TIMTOWTDI