To get the best performance, pick a site from the list below and use it to grab the complete list of mirror sites which is at /CPAN/MIRRORED.BY or at http://mirror.cpan.org/ . From there you can find the quickest site for you. Remember, the following list is not the complete list of CPAN mirrors (the complete list contains 165 sites as of January 2001):
http://www.cpan.org/ http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ http://download.sourceforge.net/mirrors/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/plan/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.flirble.org/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.uvsq.fr/pub/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.dti.ad.jp/pub/lang/CPAN/ ftp://cpan.if.usp.br/pub/mirror/CPAN/One may also use xx.cpan.org where "xx" is the 2-letter country code for your domain; e.g. Australia would use au.cpan.org. [Note: This only applies to countries that host at least one mirror.]