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CodeWriter23
4y ago
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Just curious and totally not being critical, what was your thinking about dropping SYN vs responding with RST?
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smoppi
4y ago
I think the user will most probably keep pressing the F5/Refresh button anyway if the site is not working at the first try, so responding with a RST packet would just use more bandwidth and resources.
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