A web address that does not exist is no longer tried three times

When the portal calls out to another site — an agent reading a page you asked about, for instance — and the call fails, it tries again. That is right for a network that hiccupped, and wrong for the one failure that will never improve: a hostname that does not exist.

Until now both were treated the same. A URL pointing at a domain that has been retired, or that was mistyped, was attempted three times, and each attempt was recorded as a platform error. Those error records are what the platform opens its own bug reports from — so a dead link in somebody's data produced a bug report about the platform, which had nothing wrong with it.

Such a call now fails once and is recorded for what it is. Everything else keeps retrying exactly as before, including the case that looks similar and is not: a name server that failed to answer is a real hiccup, and those calls are still tried again.