diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 84f53cb..4ed1ca4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+### Version: 5.6.0
+#### Date:
+Fix: Transient network-layer errors (ENOTFOUND, ENETUNREACH, ECONNRESET, ECONNREFUSED, EAI_AGAIN, ETIMEDOUT, EHOSTUNREACH, ENETDOWN) are now retried automatically using the SDK's configured retry policy instead of failing immediately.
+Enhancement: User-supplied `retryCondition` is composed with the default network-error retry logic — both are honoured without either replacing the other. If `retryCondition` throws, the SDK logs a warning via `logHandler` and falls back to default retry behaviour.
+
 ### Version: 5.5.1
 #### Date: Aug-03-2026
 Fix: Bump `@contentstack/core` to `^1.5.0`:
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index db729ed..9624820 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@contentstack/delivery-sdk",
-  "version": "5.5.1",
+  "version": "5.6.0",
   "type": "module",
   "license": "MIT",
   "engines": {
diff --git a/src/common/utils.ts b/src/common/utils.ts
index ca86d9b..d8e6346 100644
--- a/src/common/utils.ts
+++ b/src/common/utils.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,35 @@ export function isBrowser() {
   return (typeof window !== "undefined");
 }
 
+/**
+ * Node.js/libuv error codes that represent transient, retryable network-layer
+ * failures. All occur before an HTTP response is received (error.response is
+ * undefined). ECONNABORTED is excluded — @contentstack/core handles it as a
+ * structured TIMEOUT error and it should not be retried here.
+ */
+export const TRANSIENT_NETWORK_ERROR_CODES: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set([
+  'ENOTFOUND',    // DNS resolution failed
+  'ENETUNREACH',  // no route to host
+  'ECONNRESET',   // connection reset mid-flight
+  'ECONNREFUSED', // port closed / service not listening
+  'EAI_AGAIN',    // DNS server returned SERVFAIL (transient)
+  'ETIMEDOUT',    // OS-level connection timeout
+  'EHOSTUNREACH', // no route to host at IP layer
+  'ENETDOWN',     // local network interface down
+]);
+
+/**
+ * Determines whether an error represents a transient, retryable network-layer
+ * failure (e.g. DNS lookup failure, connection reset), used to build the SDK's
+ * default retry behavior so a single blip doesn't crash the caller (e.g. a
+ * Next.js static build) instead of being silently retried.
+ * @param {any} error - The error thrown by the underlying HTTP client (Axios)
+ * @returns {boolean} True if `error.code` matches a known transient network error code
+ */
+export function isTransientNetworkError(error: any): boolean {
+  return !!error && typeof error.code === 'string' && TRANSIENT_NETWORK_ERROR_CODES.has(error.code);
+}
+
 /**
  * Encodes query parameters recursively, handling nested objects
  * @param {params} params - Query parameters object to encode
diff --git a/src/stack/contentstack.ts b/src/stack/contentstack.ts
index 0e320d8..c69a742 100644
--- a/src/stack/contentstack.ts
+++ b/src/stack/contentstack.ts
@@ -172,9 +172,21 @@ export function stack(config: StackConfig): StackClass {
     }
   }
 
-  // Retry policy handlers
+  // Retry policy handlers.
+  // Network-layer errors (DNS failures, connection resets, etc.) are retried
+  // by default, composed on top of any user-supplied retryCondition. `config`
+  // itself is never mutated, so stack.config / client.defaults keep reflecting
+  // exactly what the consumer passed in.
+  const combinedRetryCondition = (error: any) => {
+    try {
+      if (config.retryCondition?.(error)) return true;
+    } catch (e) {
+      config.logHandler?.('warn', `[Contentstack SDK] retryCondition callback threw: "${(e as Error)?.message ?? e}". Check your retryCondition implementation. Falling back to default network-error retry behavior.`);
+    }
+    return Utility.isTransientNetworkError(error);
+  };
   const errorHandler = (error: any) => {
-    return retryResponseErrorHandler(error, config, client);
+    return retryResponseErrorHandler(error, { ...config, retryCondition: combinedRetryCondition }, client);
   };
   client.interceptors.request.use(retryRequestHandler);
   client.interceptors.response.use(retryResponseHandler, errorHandler);
diff --git a/test/unit/network-error-retry.spec.ts b/test/unit/network-error-retry.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0fda843
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unit/network-error-retry.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,227 @@
+import * as Contentstack from '../../src/stack';
+import { StackConfig } from '../../src/common/types';
+import MockAdapter from 'axios-mock-adapter';
+
+describe('Default network-error retry behavior', () => {
+  let mockClient: MockAdapter | undefined;
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    mockClient?.restore();
+    mockClient = undefined;
+  });
+
+  const dnsError = (code: string) => (config: any) =>
+    Promise.reject(
+      Object.assign(new Error(`getaddrinfo ${code} example.com`), {
+        code,
+        config,
+        isAxiosError: true,
+      })
+    );
+
+  it('(a) retries and succeeds after a single transient ENOTFOUND failure with no custom retryCondition', async () => {
+    const config: StackConfig = {
+      apiKey: 'TEST-API-KEY',
+      deliveryToken: 'TEST-DELIVERY-TOKEN',
+      environment: 'TEST-ENVIRONMENT',
+      retryDelay: 10,
+    };
+    const stack = Contentstack.stack(config);
+    const client = stack.getClient();
+    mockClient = new MockAdapter(client);
+
+    mockClient
+      .onGet('/content_types/test')
+      .replyOnce(dnsError('ENOTFOUND'))
+      .onGet('/content_types/test')
+      .reply(200, { content_types: [] });
+
+    const res = await client.get('/content_types/test');
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+  });
+
+  it('(b) still fails after retryLimit is exhausted on a permanent network failure', async () => {
+    const config: StackConfig = {
+      apiKey: 'TEST-API-KEY',
+      deliveryToken: 'TEST-DELIVERY-TOKEN',
+      environment: 'TEST-ENVIRONMENT',
+      retryLimit: 2,
+      retryDelay: 10,
+    };
+    const stack = Contentstack.stack(config);
+    const client = stack.getClient();
+    mockClient = new MockAdapter(client);
+
+    mockClient.onGet('/content_types/test').reply(dnsError('ENOTFOUND'));
+
+    await expect(client.get('/content_types/test')).rejects.toBeDefined();
+  });
+
+  it('(c) composes with a user-supplied retryCondition without replacing it', async () => {
+    const userCondition = jest.fn((error: any) => error?.response?.status === 500);
+    const config: StackConfig = {
+      apiKey: 'TEST-API-KEY',
+      deliveryToken: 'TEST-DELIVERY-TOKEN',
+      environment: 'TEST-ENVIRONMENT',
+      retryDelay: 10,
+      retryCondition: userCondition,
+    };
+    const stack = Contentstack.stack(config);
+    const client = stack.getClient();
+    mockClient = new MockAdapter(client);
+
+    mockClient
+      .onGet('/content_types/test')
+      .replyOnce(dnsError('ECONNRESET'))
+      .onGet('/content_types/test')
+      .reply(200, { content_types: [] });
+
+    const res = await client.get('/content_types/test');
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    // config is never mutated — stack.config.retryCondition stays the exact
+    // user-supplied function, matching the identity assertion already made
+    // by test/unit/retry-configuration.spec.ts.
+    expect(stack.config.retryCondition).toBe(userCondition);
+  });
+
+  it('(d) ECONNABORTED (axios timeout) is NOT retried — core classifies it as a structured TIMEOUT error', async () => {
+    // ECONNABORTED is excluded from TRANSIENT_NETWORK_ERROR_CODES so that
+    // @contentstack/core can surface it as { error_code: "TIMEOUT" } (#239).
+    // Retrying it here would bypass that structured classification.
+    const config: StackConfig = {
+      apiKey: 'TEST-API-KEY',
+      deliveryToken: 'TEST-DELIVERY-TOKEN',
+      environment: 'TEST-ENVIRONMENT',
+      retryDelay: 10,
+    };
+    const stack = Contentstack.stack(config);
+    const client = stack.getClient();
+    mockClient = new MockAdapter(client);
+
+    mockClient.onGet('/content_types/test').timeout();
+
+    await expect(client.get('/content_types/test')).rejects.toBeDefined();
+  });
+
+  it('(e) ENETUNREACH and ETIMEDOUT (the customer-reported codes) are retried', async () => {
+    for (const code of ['ENETUNREACH', 'ETIMEDOUT'] as const) {
+      const config: StackConfig = {
+        apiKey: 'TEST-API-KEY',
+        deliveryToken: 'TEST-DELIVERY-TOKEN',
+        environment: 'TEST-ENVIRONMENT',
+        retryDelay: 10,
+      };
+      const stack = Contentstack.stack(config);
+      const client = stack.getClient();
+      const mock = new MockAdapter(client);
+
+      mock
+        .onGet('/content_types/test')
+        .replyOnce(dnsError(code))
+        .onGet('/content_types/test')
+        .reply(200, { content_types: [] });
+
+      const res = await client.get('/content_types/test');
+      expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+      mock.restore();
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('(f) EAI_AGAIN (DNS servfail, intermittent) is retried', async () => {
+    const config: StackConfig = {
+      apiKey: 'TEST-API-KEY',
+      deliveryToken: 'TEST-DELIVERY-TOKEN',
+      environment: 'TEST-ENVIRONMENT',
+      retryDelay: 10,
+    };
+    const stack = Contentstack.stack(config);
+    const client = stack.getClient();
+    mockClient = new MockAdapter(client);
+
+    mockClient
+      .onGet('/content_types/test')
+      .replyOnce(dnsError('EAI_AGAIN'))
+      .onGet('/content_types/test')
+      .reply(200, { content_types: [] });
+
+    const res = await client.get('/content_types/test');
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+  });
+
+  it('(g) retryCondition that throws is caught — warning logged and SDK falls back to default retry', async () => {
+    const warnMessages: string[] = [];
+    const throwingCondition = () => { throw new Error('boom'); };
+    const config: StackConfig = {
+      apiKey: 'TEST-API-KEY',
+      deliveryToken: 'TEST-DELIVERY-TOKEN',
+      environment: 'TEST-ENVIRONMENT',
+      retryDelay: 10,
+      retryCondition: throwingCondition,
+      logHandler: (level: string, msg: any) => {
+        if (level === 'warn') warnMessages.push(msg);
+      },
+    };
+    const stack = Contentstack.stack(config);
+    const client = stack.getClient();
+    mockClient = new MockAdapter(client);
+
+    // SDK should fall back to default network-error retry and succeed.
+    mockClient
+      .onGet('/content_types/test')
+      .replyOnce(dnsError('ENOTFOUND'))
+      .onGet('/content_types/test')
+      .reply(200, { content_types: [] });
+
+    const res = await client.get('/content_types/test');
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(warnMessages.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(warnMessages[0]).toContain('[Contentstack SDK]');
+    expect(warnMessages[0]).toContain('boom');
+  });
+
+  it('(i) retryOnError: false disables network-error retries — ENOTFOUND throws immediately', async () => {
+    const config: StackConfig = {
+      apiKey: 'TEST-API-KEY',
+      deliveryToken: 'TEST-DELIVERY-TOKEN',
+      environment: 'TEST-ENVIRONMENT',
+      retryOnError: false,
+      retryDelay: 10,
+    };
+    const stack = Contentstack.stack(config);
+    const client = stack.getClient();
+    mockClient = new MockAdapter(client);
+
+    // Second route intentionally registered — if the SDK retried it would succeed,
+    // proving the test would only pass when retryOnError: false truly disables retry.
+    mockClient
+      .onGet('/content_types/test')
+      .replyOnce(dnsError('ENOTFOUND'))
+      .onGet('/content_types/test')
+      .reply(200, { content_types: [] });
+
+    await expect(client.get('/content_types/test')).rejects.toBeDefined();
+  });
+
+  it('(j) retryLimit: 0 disables network-error retries — ENOTFOUND throws immediately', async () => {
+    const config: StackConfig = {
+      apiKey: 'TEST-API-KEY',
+      deliveryToken: 'TEST-DELIVERY-TOKEN',
+      environment: 'TEST-ENVIRONMENT',
+      retryLimit: 0,
+      retryDelay: 10,
+    };
+    const stack = Contentstack.stack(config);
+    const client = stack.getClient();
+    mockClient = new MockAdapter(client);
+
+    // Second route intentionally registered — if the SDK retried it would succeed,
+    // proving the test would only pass when retryLimit: 0 truly disables retry.
+    mockClient
+      .onGet('/content_types/test')
+      .replyOnce(dnsError('ENOTFOUND'))
+      .onGet('/content_types/test')
+      .reply(200, { content_types: [] });
+
+    await expect(client.get('/content_types/test')).rejects.toBeDefined();
+  });
+});