What
When Claude Code tries to reach a machine through its bridge (the connection used to talk to that machine) and the bridge is not connected, the result is still reported as unreachable. It now also carries a flag saying the machine is not answering.
That puts it in the same group as a failed liveness check, which is a quick test of whether the machine is still responding. In that case nothing was sent to the machine.
Why
In practice, a dropped bridge and a machine that fails a liveness check are now reported as the same kind of problem.
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It is not clear what part of Claude Code reads the new flag, or whether it changes how these failures are shown or retried.