Elasticsearch CCS: client get timeout when remote cluster is isolated by firewall

If you are on Linux, could you also try setting /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_retries2 to 6:

echo 6 | sudo tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_retries2

This is in addition to having transport.ping_schedule: 5s. I wrote some more details on the Github ticket.