I had a similar problem. Check out the contents of your urllist. This is what mine looked like:
cpan[1]> o conf urllist urllist 0 [] 1 [ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/CPAN/] 2 [ftp://cpan-du.viaverio.com/pub/CPAN/] 3 [ftp://cpan-sj.viaverio.com/pub/CPAN/] 4 [ftp://cpan.calvin.edu/pub/CPAN] Type 'o conf' to view all configuration items For some reason the first URL in my list got blown away. If this is your problem do the following and you should be all fix0rd: cpan[2]> o conf urllist shift Cheers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/