[Opensim-dev] Concerning recent grid instability and inconsistency

[Brian McBee]

Coming late to this discussion, but i have a couple of comments about our
use of remoting in the interregion communications:

1. It seems like remoting is really designed for a scenario where you own
both the client and server ends of the connection, and have a reasonable
expectation that the server is up. In a distributed grid environment like
OSGRID is running, that assumption isn't true.

2. When playing with the teleport code, I tried to find a way to lower the
timeout on the remoting calls, since a failed teleport took forever to
resolve. It appears that, at least the way we are doing it, the timeout is
hardcoded and cannot be changed. It looks like Microsoft tries to provide a
way to change that timeout, but it doesn't actually work.

Perhaps longer term, we should be looking at replacing remoting with a REST
interface like we are using for the sim to grid communications.
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