Puppet users - Nov 2010 - ERROR RuntimeError: Client disconnected before connection could be established

I have the reporting enabled on puppet and am seeing several errors
per day from random clients. The errors on the client are always
''cannot retrieve file metadata'' errors, for example (from a
client
machine''s syslog):
puppetd[22451]: (//syslog-ng/Config-file[syslogngconf]/File[/opt/
syslog-ng/etc/syslog-ng.conf]) Failed to retrieve current state of
resource:  Could not retrieve file metadata for
puppet://puppet.hq.eso.org:8145/modules/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf:  at /
etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp:41


There is a corresponding error message in /var/log/puppet/
masterhttp.log on the puppet server:

[2010-11-03 16:24:32] ERROR RuntimeError: Client disconnected before
connection could be established
        /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/network/http/webrick.rb:
43:in `listen''
        /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:173:in `call''
        /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:173:in `start_thread''
        /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start''
        /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start_thread''
        /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:95:in `start''
        /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `each''
        /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `start''
        /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:23:in `start''
        /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:82:in `start''
        /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/network/http/webrick.rb:
42:in `listen''
        /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/network/http/webrick.rb:
41:in `initialize''
        /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/network/http/webrick.rb:
41:in `new''
        /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/network/http/webrick.rb:
41:in `listen''
        /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:in `synchronize''
        /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/network/http/webrick.rb:
38:in `listen''
        /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/network/server.rb:131:in
`listen''
        /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/network/server.rb:146:in
`start''
        /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/daemon.rb:128:in `start''
        /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application/puppetmeso.org
- - [03/Nov/2010:16:23:21 CET] "GET /production/file_metadata/modules/
syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf HTTP/1.1" 200 306
[2010-11-03 16:23:21] - -> /production/file_metadata/modules/syslog-ng/
syslog-ng.conf


Does anyone know the cause of this?

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