The communication object, System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel, cannot be used for communication

Question

The communication object, System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel, cannot be used for communication because it is in the Faulted state.

Answer 1

The server will automatically abort connections over which no message has been received for the duration equal to the receive timeout (default is 10 mins). This is a DoS mitigation to prevent clients from forcing the server to have connections open for an indefinite amount of time.

Since the server aborts the connection because it has gone idle, the client gets this exception.

You can control how long the server allows a connection to go idle before aborting it by configuring the receive timeout on the server's binding. Credit: T.R.Vishwanath - MSFT