Hi guys,

I'm using the new Databricks Free Edition, and I'm seeing what looks like a sudden change in outbound internet access policy.

Yesterday morning, I was able to access external APIs and test simple internet calls using Python and %sh commands in my notebook.

For example:

import requests

try:
response = requests.get("https://www.google.com", timeout=5)
print("Status:", response.status_code)
except Exception as e:
print("Error:", e)

But, Since yesterday evening, the same code started failing, and now consistently returns the following error:

Error: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www.google.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0xfffee3074290>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution'))

1. Has there been a change in the networking policy for Free Edition?

2. Does the Free Edition impose a hard limit on outbound request retries? Or is the Max retries exceeded error simply a result of network restrictions (like DNS failure or firewall rules)?

Cheers,