Bot doesn't reconnect if remote server hangs up

[moggers87]

I think adding the keepalive flag to the socket will sort this out, but I need to test this first.

[moggers87]

OK, SO_KEEPALIVE probably won't kill the socket early enough for us (2 hours versus 5 minutes)

I'm going to leave this until the new hook/event system is done, I can just reconnect if the server doesn't PING in x minutes or other

[moggers87]

This is done in theory, but things need rejigging quite a bit wrt core pluggin loading, so we'll wait for #49 first

[tsyesika]

Also this could be a tricky one to test. We need to outline a test procedure in the ticket so we can test it and make sure it this is really done as this is our most serious bug we have open currently.

[moggers87]

I think the easiest way to simulate this is to kill the default route (as in route everything via localhost :P ) and wait for the bot to try and reconnect. If it does try, then we can close this bug :)