Re: SQL Server 2000 query time out option, what does it do?

Query timeouts are confusing.  The most common is from your client to
the server. If the client initiates a query, and that query takes too
long, the connection can timeout. As an example, poorly written code,
or a slow server can take a very long time, and the client will time
out. Usually it is the client that times out.

I would  assume that one server talking to another woudl use a similar
connection which could time out.