ID on spurious packets after reset

["Roy T. Fielding" <fi...@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>]

This one is worth reading for those of you with large numbers of
connections to your webserver.  It seems to me that a server which isn't
careful about closing a connection has a higher probability of corrupting
later connections, which would result is some very-hard-to-debug errors.

Something to keep in mind.

.....Roy

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       Title     : RSTs Considered Harmful                                 
       Author(s) : I. Heavens
       Filename  : draft-heavens-problems-rsts-02.txt
       Pages     : 25
       Date      : 06/13/1996

This memo argues that the danger of segments from old TCP connections 
occurs for connections terminated by RST segments, as well as those 
terminated by exchange of FIN segments. In addition, TIME-WAIT state alone 
does not provide complete protection.  The likelihood of data corruption is
significant, in that it exceeds the probability of corruption after FIN 
exchange for which TIME-WAIT state was designed.                           

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Re: ID on spurious packets after reset

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>]

On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>        Title     : RSTs Considered Harmful                                 
>        Author(s) : I. Heavens
>        Filename  : draft-heavens-problems-rsts-02.txt

Further proof of our conspiracy to drive Rob crazy!

	Brian

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