Thanks to everyone for their responses.
I have now coded the application to catch the exception an determine
whether it is an i/o problem and attempts to re-connect to the database.
I will look into the socket time-out settings but I have realised that
my solution also holds up well when a network/internet connection is
lost entirely.
Thanks again.
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