[ale] reasonable socket life

[ale at sixit.com (Robert Reese~)]

> Quick poll/question.
> Assume you have a daemon that talks to another daemon across a
> network over a socket.  The communication is constant and unlike
> http requests are always alive. These socket connections would be
> across a multimile geographic area but within a corporate WAN.
> How often would you expect a connection would need to be restarted
> before you decide that the connection is unstable. hours,
> weeks,months? Please don't say seconds.

1^(10^100) seconds.  Or until one side dies.  In theory, anyway.