It’s not an error, it’s a deliberate feature – you don’t want your code to wait for remote applications to respond.
There’s nothing you can do to speed the process up (vade’s suggestion won’t help as the framework already does that for you when it’s loaded). Generally I’d avoid polling – register for the NSNotification SyphonServerDirectory posts and you’ll receive a notification as soon as each server is discovered (or disappears, changes its name).