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 tries to guess 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.
Africa
South Africa ftp.is.co.za
ftpza.co.za
Asia
Armenia sunsite.aua.am
China freesoft.cei.gov.cn
Hong Kong ftp.hkstar.com
Israel bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il
Japan ftp.dti.ad.jp
ftp.jaist.ac.jp
ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp
Singapore ftp.nus.edu.sg
South Korea ftp.bora.net
ftp.nuri.net
Taiwan ftp.wownet.net
Thailand ftp.cs.riubon.ac.th
Australasia
Australia cpan.topend.com.au
ftp.netinfo.com.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
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.lip6.fr
ftp.oleane.net
ftp.pasteur.fr
Germany ftp.archive.de.uu.net
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
Ireland sunsite.compapp.dcu.ie
Italy cis.uniRoma2.it
Netherlands ftp.cs.ruu.nl
ftp.EU.net
Norway ftp.uit.no
sunsite.uio.no
Poland ftp.man.szczecin.pl
ftp.man.torun.pl
ftp.pk.edu.pl
sunsite.icm.edu.pl
Portugal ftp.ci.uminho.pt
ftp.telepac.pt
Romania ftp.dntis.ro
ftp.dnttm.ro
Russia 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
United Kingdom ftp.demon.co.uk
ftp.flirble.org
ftp.plig.org
sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk
unix.hensa.ac.uk
North America
California ftp.cdrom.com
ftp.digital.com
Calisota ftp.perl.org
Colorado ftp.cs.colorado.edu
Florida ftp.cis.ufl.edu
Illinois uiarchive.uiuc.edu
Indiana ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu
Manitoba theory.uwinnipeg.ca
Massachusetts ftp.ccs.neu.edu
ftp.iguide.com
New York ftp.rge.com
North Carolina ftp.duke.edu
Oklahoma ftp.ou.edu
Ontario enterprise.ic.gc.ca
ftp.utilis.com
Oregon ftp.orst.edu
Pennsylvania ftp.epix.net
Texas ftp.metronet.com
ftp.sedl.org
Washington ftp.spu.edu
South America
Brazil cpan.if.usp.br
Chile ftp.ing.puc.cl
sunsite.dcc.uchile.cl
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).
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.
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.
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.