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Welcome to the CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. This document describes the CPAN itself, the Network.

Network

The master CPAN site is at FUNET, the Finnish University NETwork (Finland, Europe).

Select the site nearest to you from the list below, 'Registered CPAN sites', to get the best response time and bandwidth. NOTE: one way to select 'the nearest' is to use the CPAN Multiplexer which can be used either to guess or to select the nearest site for you based on your host's Internet domain name.

The list of the registered CPAN sites follows. Please note that the sorting order is alphabetical on fields:


	continent - country/state - ftp-url

and thus the North American servers happen to be listed between the European and the South American sites.

Registered CPAN sites

[Africa] [Asia] [Australasia] [Central America] [Europe] [North America] [South America]


Africa

South Africa ftp.is.co.za ftp.saix.net ftp.sun.ac.za ftpza.co.za

Asia

China freesoft.cei.gov.cn Hong Kong ftp.hkstar.com ftp.pacific.net.hk Indonesia malone.piksi.itb.ac.id Israel bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il Japan ftp.dti.ad.jp ftp.jaist.ac.jp ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp ftp.meisei-u.ac.jp ftp.ring.gr.jp mirror.nucba.ac.jp Saudi-Arabia ftp.isu.net.sa Singapore ftp.nus.edu.sg South Korea ftp.bora.net ftp.kornet.net ftp.nuri.net Taiwan coda.nctu.edu.tw ftp.ee.ncku.edu.tw ftp.wownet.net ftp1.sinica.edu.tw Thailand ftp.cs.riubon.ac.th ftp.nectec.or.th

Australasia

Australia cpan.topend.com.au ftp.labyrinth.net.au ftp.sage-au.org.au mirror.aarnet.edu.au New Zealand ftp.auckland.ac.nz sunsite.net.nz

Central America

Costa Rica ftp.ucr.ac.cr

Europe

Austria ftp.tuwien.ac.at Belgium ftp.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be Bulgaria ftp.ntrl.net Croatia ftp.linux.hr Czech Republic ftp.fi.muni.cz sunsite.mff.cuni.cz Denmark sunsite.auc.dk Estonia ftp.ut.ee Finland ftp.funet.fi France ftp.grolier.fr ftp.lip6.fr ftp.oleane.net ftp.pasteur.fr ftp.uvsq.fr German ftp.gigabell.net Germany ftp.archive.de.uu.net ftp.freenet.de ftp.gmd.de ftp.gwdg.de ftp.leo.org ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de ftp.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de ftp.uni-erlangen.de ftp.uni-hamburg.de Germany ftp.archive.de.uu.net ftp.freenet.de ftp.gmd.de ftp.gwdg.de ftp.leo.org ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de ftp.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de ftp.uni-erlangen.de ftp.uni-hamburg.de Greece ftp.ntua.gr Hungary ftp.kfki.hu Iceland ftp.gm.is Ireland cpan.indigo.ie sunsite.compapp.dcu.ie Italy cis.uniRoma2.it ftp.flashnet.it ftp.unina.it ftp.unipi.it Netherlands ftp.cs.uu.nl ftp.EU.net ftp.nluug.nl Norway ftp.uit.no sunsite.uio.no Poland ftp.man.torun.pl ftp.pk.edu.pl sunsite.icm.edu.pl Portugal ftp.ci.uminho.pt ftp.ist.utl.pt ftp.ua.pt Romania ftp.dntis.ro ftp.dnttm.ro Russia ftp.chg.ru ftp.sai.msu.su Slovakia ftp.entry.sk Slovenia ftp.arnes.si Spain ftp.etse.urv.es ftp.rediris.es Sweden ftp.sunet.se Switzerland sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch Turkey sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr United Kingdom ftp.demon.co.uk ftp.flirble.org ftp.mirror.ac.uk ftp.plig.org sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk

North America

Alberta sunsite.ualberta.ca California cpan.nas.nasa.gov cpan.valueclick.com ftp.cdrom.com download.sourceforge.net Colorado ftp.cs.colorado.edu Florida ftp.cise.ufl.edu Georgia ftp.twoguys.org Illinois uiarchive.uiuc.edu Indiana csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu Kentucky ftp.uky.edu Manitoba theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca Massachusetts ftp.ccs.neu.edu ftp.iguide.com Mexico ftp.msg.com.mx Minnesota ftp.midearthbbs.com New York ftp.deao.net ftp.rge.com ftp.tpj.com North Carolina ftp.duke.edu Nova Scotia cpan.chebucto.ns.ca Oklahoma ftp.ou.edu Ontario ftp.crc.ca Oregon ftp.orst.edu Pennsylvania ftp.epix.net Tennessee ftp.sunsite.utk.edu Texas ftp.sedl.org jhcloos.com Utah mirror.xmission.com Virginia ftp.perl.org ruff.cs.jmu.edu Washington ftp-mirror.internap.com ftp.llarian.net ftp.spu.edu

South America

Brazil cpan.if.usp.br ftp.matrix.com.br Chile sunsite.dcc.uchile.cl

Feedback

You can send email to the CPAN administrators, cpan@perl.org.

How You Can Help

Inform

If you know of some Perl resources that seem not to be in the CPAN (you did check the contents listings in indices/, didn't you?) please tell us. We will grab it (if it is small and/or stable) or set up regular mirroring (if it is not).

Contribute

If you have some modules/scripts/documentation yourself that you would like to contribute to CPAN, please read the file modules/04pause.html and let us know.

Register

If you have a reliable and well-connected ftp site where you can keep CPAN (about 260 MB currently), more mirror sites are welcome. Feel free to volunteer and contact the CPAN administrators describing your mirroring setup, please see the top of the file MIRRORED.BY Of course, first check (see from the above list) whether you area (network-connectivity-and-bandwidth-wise) is already well covered. Redundancy and fault-tolerance are good things for ftp archives like CPAN but virtues can be exaggerated. Mirroring software is available from the CPAN itself.

Private/Local Mirroring

If you want to set up a private/local mirror of CPAN but do not want to advertise it you do not need to contact the CPAN admistrators. You need to assess which of the public CPAN sites would give the best ftp bandwidth for you (during the nighttime, mind) and then contact the email address dst_contact given in the MIRRORED.BY file to learn the best time of the day to do your mirror. Mirroring software is available from the CPAN itself.