Tell gradle to bypass dependency checks

Tell gradle to bypass dependency checks

I am at a clients site, behind a firewall. Im trying to compile but gradle
keeps trying to check my dependencies. The corporate firewall explicitly
blocks maven downloads so my build is failing. Now I have compiled before,
so the dependencies do already exist in my [user]/.gradle folder, but its
been more than 24 hours so gradle is trying to do its daily "lets check
the repo and make sure nothing changed stuff."
Is there a command switch or anything that im just simply not seeing here
to tell gradle to bypass this version check and simply compile the code? I
would even be happy with a command switch that says I don't care if
dependency resolution failed, compile anyways.