How to make puppet *fail* on "Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue" ?

[Robin Lee Powell]

So right now, puppet is doing this because of DNS issues:

Warning: Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue:
Warning: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Error: /File[/var/lib/puppet/facts.d]: Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
Error: /File[/var/lib/puppet/facts.d]: Could not evaluate: Could not retrieve file metadata for puppet://ip-10-0-1-16.us-west-1.compute.internal/pluginfacts: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
Wrapped exception:
getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
Info: Retrieving plugin
Error: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]: Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
Error: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]: Could not evaluate: Could not retrieve file metadata for puppet://ip-10-0-1-16.us-west-1.compute.internal/plugins: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
Wrapped exception:
getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
Info: Loading facts
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
Error: Could not send report: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known

I know how to fix the underlying problem, but what I would like is
for puppet to *NOT* continue after the first line. I would like it
to loudly bail and exit immediately, because all that trying takes a
long time (minutes) that I'd prefer my automation spend doing
something else, like alarming me about the problem.

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[Christopher Wood]

It's a bit unintuitively named (for my values of intuition), maybe this helps?

https://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/configuration.html#usecacheonfailure

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[Robin Lee Powell]

Oh, yes, that's *lovely*, thank you!

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