problem with CPAN

[Rob Bloodgood]

> I seem to have mucked up Net::FTP or my CPAN configuration ...or 
> something else.
[snip]
> 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
> Can't call method "sockport" on an undefined value at 
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/FTP.pm line 789

you could run CPAN::Nox and reinstall Net::FTP.
perl -MCPAN::Nox -e shell
install Bundle::libnet

which should get you communicating w/o using any hosed modules.
you could even take that moment to update CPAN.

Altho... mebbe your mirror is unavailable? 
o conf unshift http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local
reload index

HTH!

L8r,
Rob

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