> This happened one day while I was transferring a VM image in the hundreds of gigabytes from one server to another using netcat like so:
> ...
> my SSH connections had died yet again. And sshd had taken netcat down with it, killing the transfer midway.
As somebody who has experienced the described behaviour, I can empathise because it is super annoying. But this isn't a particular good point with which to illustrate it. If you're doing any sort of work on one or more remote servers that shouldn't be accidentally terminated like a large data transfer, you should be backgrounding it with screen or similar. Even for users without the idel connection dropping as described, the Internet can still fail.
As somebody who has experienced the described behaviour, I can empathise because it is super annoying. But this isn't a particular good point with which to illustrate it. If you're doing any sort of work on one or more remote servers that shouldn't be accidentally terminated like a large data transfer, you should be backgrounding it with screen or similar. Even for users without the idel connection dropping as described, the Internet can still fail.