The following modifications needed to stabilize connections in environments where there are a lot of endpoints and nodes: - Align the GRPC dial context timeouts in nsmgr and forwarder. - Increase the defaut value of NSM_DIAL_TIMEOUT from 750ms to 1500ms. - New parameter should be introduced: NSM_DIAL_MAX_DELAY which currently defaults to 120s. (https://pkg.go.dev/google.golang.org/grpc@v1.71.1/backoff#DefaultConfig)