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Give the link check a longer timeout and retries #52

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"_comment": [
"aliveStatusCodes deliberately omits 0. A status of 0 is a connection or DNS",
"failure, so allowing it made the checker report genuinely dead links as",
"healthy -- three of them survived that way, including an NXDOMAIN host.",
"healthy -- three survived that way, including an NXDOMAIN host.",
"",
"The cost is that hosts which block datacenter IPs also return 0 from GitHub's",
"runners while resolving fine in a browser. Those are listed below; each was",
"verified as returning 200 from a normal network. Add to this list only after",
"checking the link by hand."
"The cost is false positives from CI: some hosts refuse datacenter IPs, and",
"large files can exceed the default 10s timeout. The timeout and retries",
"below cover the slow cases; ignorePatterns lists hosts that block outright.",
"Every entry was verified by hand as returning 200 from a normal network.",
"Add to the list only after checking the link yourself."
],
"aliveStatusCodes": [417, 403, 200, 429, 206],
"timeout": "20s",
"retryOn429": true,
"retryCount": 3,
"fallbackRetryDelay": "5s",
"ignorePatterns": [
{ "pattern": "^https?://(www\\.)?ted\\.com/" },
{ "pattern": "^https?://(www\\.)?catb\\.org/" },
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