linux :: perl cpan cant connect to

CAMSCAPE SERVICES Cristian M.	Title	Perl CPAN cant connect to
	Tags	CPAN,connection failed
	Desc.	Perl CPAN not working mirrors
	Code	KBLN0037 v1.0
	Date	14 iulie 2018

Sometimes CPAN cannot download modules and seems that its mirrors are not working. If you see something like

Connecting to soft-download.org (somesitename)|someip|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying

Then you have to change the mirrors:

perl -MCPAN -e shell

o conf urllist
o conf urllist ftp://cpan.mirror.iphh.net/pub/CPAN/ http://mirror.netcologne.de/cpan/ http://www.planet-elektronik.de/CPAN/
o conf commit

The full list of working mirrors can be read here: http://www.cpan.org/SITES.html