A loaded runner can accept a registry transport while delaying its
actor handshake beyond the first one-second attempt. Treating that
timeout as final classifies a healthy daemon as occupied and cascades
into unrelated discovery failures.
Retry connected handshake failures on fresh channels under a shared
three-second budget, while returning immediately for truly absent
listeners. Bound every connect-plus-handshake attempt, use incremental
backoff, and retain the one-second unauthenticated server limit.
Also bound shielded probe-channel cleanup to 200ms and cover the real
timeout, reconnection, backoff, fresh-channel, and stalled-close paths.
Review: PR #480 (goodboy)
https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/480
(this patch was generated in some part by `opencode` using
`gpt-5.6-sol` (`openai`))
Gud Boi
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