In message <djjlgd$iu8$1@serpens.de>, Michael van Elst writes:
>woods@weird.com ("Greg A. Woods") writes:
>
>>Why do some network connections get stuck forever?
>
>I would guess that this is a feature of TCP.
>
In particular, if you don't have keep-alives enabled that behavior is 
in fact correct.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb