Thanks for the response. See below for the output from your suggestion
GET http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/authors
User-Agent: lwp-request/6.00 libwww-perl/6.02
500 Can't connect to ppm.activestate.com:80 (Bad hostname)
Content-Type: text/plain
Client-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:13:37 GMT
Client-Warning: Internal response
GET http://cpan.perl.org/authors
User-Agent: lwp-request/6.00 libwww-perl/6.02
500 Can't connect to cpan.perl.org:80 (Bad hostname)
Content-Type: text/plain
Client-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:13:39 GMT
Client-Warning: Internal response