[taeric]

I'm not sure I follow. If the page is constantly bouncing to the no connection page, it is jarring, period. If the page of my "no connection" changes because of the address in trying, that is jarring if the problem is on my end.

That is, consider your network is down. You try to go to an address. It doesn't load, so you try another address, the page changes; but it is the same content.

[forgetfulness]

Is it important that the no connection message be an HTML document treated like others in the web browser? If browsers used to model it that way and you saw behaviors corresponding to the switching of a webpage, it was arbitrary too, and in this case, would cause more disruption.