The CPAN Architecture
CPAN represents the development interests of a cross-section of the Perl community. It contains Perl utilities, modules, documentation, and (of course) the Perl distribution itself. CPAN was created by Jarkko Hietaniemi and Andreas König.
The home for CPAN is http://www.cpan.org/, but CPAN is also mirrored on many other sites around the globe. This ensures that anyone with an Internet connection can have reliable access to CPAN’s contents at any time. Since the structure of all CPAN sites is the same, a user searching for the current version of Perl can be sure that the stable.tar.gz file is the same on every site.
If you want to use anonymous FTP, the following machines should have the Perl source code plus a copy of the CPAN mirror list:
ftp.perl.com |
ftp.cs.colorado.edu |
ftp.cise.ufl.edu |
ftp.funet.fi |
ftp.cs.ruu.nl |
The location of the top directory of the CPAN mirror differs on these machines, so look around once you get there. It’s often something like /pub/perl/CPAN.
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