> Hi Christian and thank you very much for your prompt response. I have few
> questions, I will write in-line

> 2012/9/25 Christian Kvalheim <chri...@gmail.com <javascript:>>

>> if there is no activity on a connection mongodb will close it after 10
>> minutes.

> Why we cant reproduce this when running it locally or in a VM in the cloud?

>> http://christiankvalheim.com/post/32209721702/tcp-keepalive

>> set the keep alive settings on the driver and see if it helps.
>> Unfortunately I don't have any experience with Azure myself so if does not
>> help it might be a Azure thing.

>> Auto reconnect means it will reconnect on the next operation not that the
>> error is magically handled. The reason is simple. If an insert or update is
>> in flight the driver cannot just automatically replay the insert/update as
>> it might have gone through before the failure.

> You mention insert/update, but is this still valid for queries
> (collection.find(...).toArray())?

> and the last question is what is the syntax for seting the keepAlive?, I
> cant find any example. I saw that the Server constructor has a
> socketOptions I imagine something like this:

> new mongodb.Server(host, port, {keepAlive: true} )

>  thanks again!