npm install strscan fails

[gr2m]

this is what I get:

$ npm install strscan
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/strscan
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/strscan
npm http GET http://packages:5984/strscan/-/strscan-1.0.1.tgz
npm ERR! fetch failed http://packages:5984/strscan/-/strscan-1.0.1.tgz
npm ERR! network getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND
npm ERR! network This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
npm ERR! network and is related to network connectivity.
npm ERR! network In most cases you are behind a proxy or have bad network settings.
npm ERR! network 
npm ERR! network If you are behind a proxy, please make sure that the
npm ERR! network 'proxy' config is set properly.  See: 'npm help config'

npm ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0
npm ERR! command "/usr/local/Cellar/node/0.10.22/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/gregor/JavaScripts/grunt-eco
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.22
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.14
npm ERR! syscall getaddrinfo
npm ERR! code ENOTFOUND
npm ERR! errno ENOTFOUND
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/gregor/JavaScripts/grunt-eco/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

does that make any sense to you? It's preventing eco and grunt-eco from being installable atm.

Related https://github.com/gr2m/grunt-eco/issues/8