docs(config): warn about federation key query timeout caveat

Signed-off-by: rooot <hey@rooot.gay>
2026-05-26 20:49:55 +00:00 · 2025-07-20 16:46:18 +02:00
parent 9051ce63f7
commit 0631094350
2 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
@@ -329,7 +329,8 @@
 # to high values, as dead homeservers can significantly slow down
 # federation, specifically key retrieval, which will take roughly the
 # amount of time you configure here given that a homeserver doesn't
-# respond.
+# respond. This will cause most clients to time out /keys/query, causing
+# E2EE and device verification to fail.
 #
 #federation_conn_timeout = 10