diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index e9b05cc9f21..da0e8e10337 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
+  MAPREDUCE-3840.  JobEndNotifier doesn't use the proxyToUse during connecting
+  (Ravi Prakash via bobby)
 
 Release 0.23.1 - 2012-02-08 
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/JobEndNotifier.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/JobEndNotifier.java
index 9ffe2181c99..ca7f625c279 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/JobEndNotifier.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/JobEndNotifier.java
@@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ public class JobEndNotifier implements Configurable {
     boolean success = false;
     try {
       Log.info("Job end notification trying " + urlToNotify);
-      HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) urlToNotify.openConnection();
+      HttpURLConnection conn =
+        (HttpURLConnection) urlToNotify.openConnection(proxyToUse);
       conn.setConnectTimeout(5*1000);
       conn.setReadTimeout(5*1000);
       conn.setAllowUserInteraction(false);