Yes, we have been having intermittent URLfetch errors for months now. It seems like a DNS issue, as the urls are fetchable from dev server or directly. The first post, Google said they found an upstream provider that was giving a DNS error. Subsequent posts have gone unanswered.
We space the fetches out, so as not to spin up any extra instances,so I doubt it is a throttling issue. It seems to me that Google has an intermittent problem somewhere connecting to the internet. (Did I just say that out loud?) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.