On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 tcaine at cac.washington.edu wrote: > You might try setting $CPAN::Config->{http_proxy}. See "perldoc CPAN" for > more info. > > cpan> o conf http_proxy http://192.168.1.1:8080 > cpan> o conf commit You'll also want to verify that you're using http CPAN servers, I think, any ftp servers will likely not work over ftp. Jon