At 13:57 20/09/02, you wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>I have a machine which can't seem to use ftp through LWP or LibNet, but 
>can when I just use the ftp command line program. If I try to use the 
>interactive automatic CPAN it just sits there waiting for the config files 
>to download


Thanks to the many people who pointed out that I needed to persuade it to 
use Passive FTP. It is working now. Thanks.

Several ways of specifying passive FTP were offered but I just re-installed 
libnet and told it to when asked.

Alex McLintock



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