% Datatracker information for RFCs on the Legacy Stream is unfortunately often % incorrect. Please correct the bibtex below based on the information in the % actual RFC at https://rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3360.txt @misc{rfc3360, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 3360, howpublished = {RFC 3360}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC3360}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3360}, author = {Sally Floyd}, title = {{Inappropriate TCP Resets Considered Harmful}}, pagetotal = 19, year = 2002, month = aug, abstract = {This document is being written because there are a number of firewalls in the Internet that inappropriately reset a TCP connection upon receiving certain TCP SYN packets, in particular, packets with flags set in the Reserved field of the TCP header. In this document we argue that this practice is not conformant with TCP standards, and is an inappropriate overloading of the semantics of the TCP reset. We also consider the longer-term consequences of this and similar actions as obstacles to the evolution of the Internet infrastructure.}, }