SOLVED: The problem was caused by small MTU size on the puppet master's ethernet port. The solution was to reduce the MTU size to 1400, with the command:
ip link set eth0 mtu 1400. The server was behind a firewall and communicated with outside world through a Cisco ADSL Router, which had an MTU size of 1492. We caught the problem by trying to scp a file of approx. 1500 bytes from the puppet server to the client. The scp created an empty file and then hung. This enabled us to eliminate puppet as the problem source. Strangely other servers in the same zone also have MTU zone = 1500 and work fine. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
