def is_socket_alive(sock: socket.socket) -> bool:
    try:
        # this will try to read bytes without blocking and also without removing them from buffer (peek only)
        data = sock.recv(16, socket.MSG_DONTWAIT | socket.MSG_PEEK)
        if len(data) == 0:
            return True
    except BlockingIOError:
        return False  # socket is open and reading from it would block
    except ConnectionResetError:
        return True  # socket was closed for some other reason
    except Exception as e:
        logger.exception("unexpected exception when checking if a socket is closed")
        return False
    return False