hi there, i'm currently trying to setup a automated update deliverysystem for a little program we develop. in order to do that efficiently i was tasked to evaluate possible solutions and landed at puppets doorstep. i wrote a small manifest that should do the trick (and it mostly does) and know its time to go through a couple of setup scenarios different customers may run. one of them includes the usage of proxyservers, so i looked up the reference guide for the puppet.conf file and was happy to find the options "http_proxy_host/port" i thought sweet, just specify the ip / port in the puppet.conf on the client that uses a proxy (c:\programdata\puppetlabs\puppet\etc) and off we go. i my little test setup i run a freeware proxy and setup my gateway of the puppet client to that proxy, in troubleshooting why it doesnt work, i found that i shouldnt specify the ip rather than the fqdn of the proxy. i did that, the client was talking to the server (i guess?) but i runs into an error, that says it didnt find any node definition for my client. if i remove the proxy settings/setup the manifest runs smooth. my initial thoughts would be 2 things i would like advice on: maybe the puppet.conf on the client isnt the right place to try and specify the proxy settings? after a couple of google searches i found hits where people adviced to defining those settings environment variable with export? and since i'm just starting to puppet, i didnt really found that comment to be particulary helpful for me. the second part may be to nameresolution? i dont run a dns server or domain server, just the puppet master in a debian vm and 2 win 7 vms (1 client / the other as the proxy server). since i dont run a domain, i added a dns suffix for the proxy vm and tryed addressing it with "proxyserver.local" in the puppet.conf but that technicaly doesnt qualify as fdqn (right?) and for caution i added the proxy to the hosts file of the puppet client. any pointers to get that going? i have no idea what else i can try. any help would be much appreciated greetings robert -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/1522a178-ce50-4e96-9b9f-fc29aa0a7dec%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.