Cosmos Slow Opening

Program.cs

// If you run the following with the cosmos emulator disabled, it takes about 2 minutes before the OpenAsync call fails
// Comment out the SetLocation line, and it takes about 8.

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client;

namespace CosmosTimeoutTest
{
    class Program
    {
        static async Task Main(string[] args)
        {
            var connectionPolicy = new ConnectionPolicy
            {
                ConnectionMode = ConnectionMode.Direct,
                ConnectionProtocol = Protocol.Tcp,
                RequestTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100),
                EnableReadRequestsFallback = true,
                EnableEndpointDiscovery = true,
                RetryOptions = new RetryOptions
                {
                    MaxRetryAttemptsOnThrottledRequests = 0,
                    MaxRetryWaitTimeInSeconds = 0
                }
            };

            //COMMENT THE FOLLOWING LINE OUT
            connectionPolicy.SetCurrentLocation("North Europe");

            var client = new DocumentClient(
                new Uri("https://localhost:8081"),
                "C2y6yDjf5/R+ob0N8A7Cgv30VRDJIWEHLM+4QDU5DE2nQ9nDuVTqobD4b8mGGyPMbIZnqyMsEcaGQy67XIw/Jw==",
                connectionPolicy);

            var stopwatch = new Stopwatch();
            stopwatch.Start();
            try
            {
                await client.OpenAsync();
            }
            finally
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"Elapsed: {stopwatch.Elapsed}");
            }
        }
    }
}