Greetings, I wish to discuss a formal change of the default retry for wget from 20 to something more pragmatic such as two or three.
While I believe 20 retries may have been the correct default many years ago, it seems overkill for the modern "cloud based" internet, where most sites are backed by one or more load balancers. Geolocateable A records further reduce the necessity for retries by providing a second or third option for browsers to try. To a lesser extent, GTM and GSLB technologies (however maligned they may be) are sufficient as well to properly handle failures for significant amounts of traffic. BGP network technology for large hosting providers has also further reduced the need to perform several retries to a site. Finally, for better or worse, environments such as Kubernetes and other container orchestration tools seem to afford sites an unlimited uptime should the marketing be trusted.
