Re: ICMP dest-unreach in SYN_* states of TCP

[Dan Hollis]

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Windows NT is unusual: even with RST, it tries the SYN 4 times, every
> 0.5 second.

This is known NT behaviour, and it is evil. IIRC, NT sends RST when a
server's socket accept queue is full. NT clients compensate for this by
retrying 4 times with 0.5 second interval before giving up.

-Dan

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