Question: After a connection to a card server is lost, I have to restart
newcamd to reestablish it. This sux. Do something about it!
Answer: No, we won't. YOU do something about it! There is camdcmd provided
in the official newcamd.zip distribution, the wanon command will do exactly
that, rebuild all the connections that are designated as "wan" in newcamd.conf
(cardserv.cfg, cardspider.cfg). Start using it! Go make a plugin if calling it
via telnet is too much to ask.

Question: But, I want it to reconnect automatically without user interaction.
Answer: That makes no sense. newcamd<->cardserver uses the tcp protocol,
which means, if a connection is lost, there is something seriously wrong with
your network between newcamd and the cardserver. So an immediate reconnect would
almost certainly fail. A reconnect attempt after say X minutes makes no sense
either, the user will have long zapped to another channel or attempted the
reconnect manually by then. And if you did record something unattended it
certainly makes no difference, if only X minutes or the whole remaining
part of the program are lost. The recording is screwed up either way.
Bottom line, there will be no automatic reconnect for direct newcamd to
cardserver connections.