cpan urllist

CPAN keeps trying to get to archive.progeny.com which is down. You can get around this by using o conf urllist to see the URLs and then shift to move the bad URL out:

cpan[5]> o conf urllist                                                       
    urllist           
        [ftp://archive.progeny.com/CPAN/]
        [ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/CPAN/]
        [ftp://cpan.calvin.edu/pub/CPAN]
        [ftp://cpan.cs.utah.edu/pub/CPAN/]
        [ftp://cpan.mirrors.redwire.net/pub/CPAN/]
Type 'o conf' to view all configuration items


cpan[6]> o conf urllist shift                                                 

cpan[7]> o conf urllist                                                       
    urllist           
        [ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/CPAN/]
        [ftp://cpan.calvin.edu/pub/CPAN]
        [ftp://cpan.cs.utah.edu/pub/CPAN/]
        [ftp://cpan.mirrors.redwire.net/pub/CPAN/]
Type 'o conf' to view all configuration items


cpan[8]> o conf commit                                                        
commit: wrote '/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN/Config.pm'

cpan[9]>   

You can also o conf urllist push ftp://... to add URLs.