{
  "draft": "draft-floyd-tcp-reset-04",
  "doc_id": "RFC3360",
  "title": "Inappropriate TCP Resets Considered Harmful",
  "authors": [
    "S. Floyd"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "19",
  "pub_status": "BEST CURRENT PRACTICE",
  "status": "BEST CURRENT PRACTICE",
  "source": "Legacy",
  "abstract": "This document is being written because there are a number of\r\nfirewalls in the Internet that inappropriately reset a TCP connection\r\nupon receiving certain TCP SYN packets, in particular, packets with\r\nflags set in the Reserved field of the TCP header.  In this document\r\nwe argue that this practice is not conformant with TCP standards, and\r\nis an inappropriate overloading of the semantics of the TCP reset.\r\nWe also consider the longer-term consequences of this and similar\r\nactions as obstacles to the evolution of the Internet infrastructure.",
  "pub_date": "August 2002",
  "keywords": [
    "transmission control protocol",
    "rst",
    "bit",
    "connection"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC3360",
  "errata_url": null
}