After upgrading Perl to 5.8.8 including the new CPAN, I am
experiencing a problem I have not seen for a long time:
cpan> r
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /Users/jd/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:17:31 GMT
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
ftp://cpan.etla.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[404] message[File '01mailrc.txt.gz' not found]
Fetching with Net::FTP:
ftp://cpan.etla.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Couldn't fetch 01mailrc.txt.gz from cpan.etla.org
Fetching with LWP:
ftp://cpan.teleglobe.net/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Useless content call in void context at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/LWP/Protocol/ftp.pm line 398
LWP failed with code[400] message[FTP return code 000]
Fetching with Net::FTP:
....
This is repeated for each of the sites in my list with a very long
wait for each failure. when all these fail it uses curl and
immediately gets the required files:
Trying with "/usr/bin/curl -L" to get ....
The last time I had this trouble, more than a year ago, I seem to
remember resolving it by reinstalling libnet or something, but I'd
like to know the proper way to put this right and what is causing it.
JD
