*Original Summary*Since update to puppet 5.5.17 puppetdb forge module cannot connect to puppetdb
Since the update to puppet agent 5.5.17 the puppetdb forge module is using the configured proxy server and ignoring the no_proxy setting when trying to validate the connection to puppetdb. This worked properly on 5.5.16.
Puppet will bypass the http proxy if the `no_proxy` environment variable or puppet setting is a suffix of the destination server FQDN. Previously puppet would only bypass the proxy if `no_proxy` had a leading wildcard (*.example.com) or dot (.example.com).