Amit,
Are you looking for the settings that the relay installer applies automatically? I believe it creates two forwarding rules in the central distsrv:
- One to forward the install_* packages
- One to forward the licenses
Other than that, there should be nothing special about the distsrv in NoD.
I have seen timeout errors like that when trying to talk to the distsrv while it is busy. I usually see them when the distsrv is distributing packages to robots, but they may also occur when it is forwarding packages to another distsrv.
-Keith