Not sure about the answer but I got curious.
Do you really have a connection that will stay idle for more than 217 days ? I'm not sure if any OS would support that.
Will yes if the proto is tcp and the sender or receiver teardowns the sessions but outside of that never means just that "never".
But to answer the other poster question, yes you could have a session open that long. I did a lab with a session open for 5 months ( yeap, not quite 217+ days ) but it could be done & I don't see why it could not be 6 , 9 , 12 or more months
It really depends on the "application" and has nothing to do with the OSes. If you write the application to idle down after so many secs of inactivity, than it will close the session.
Now on the firewall, it would probably not be a good thing to use a never ( for all ) unless you have valid reasons.
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