CaT [off-list ref] wrote:

I'm just wondering if connections hanging around this long are normal.
The above has now been running for 6 days. netstat is still reporting an
established session. netcat has not timed out. It's all just sitting
there doing nothing.

TCP connections without keepalives can sit there for all eternity,
if your machine lasts that long :)
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