System and method of responding to a full TCP queue

A system and method of responding to a full TCP queue. After a server receives a TCP connection request from a client, the server places the request on an embryonic queue of TCP connection requests sorted by the amount of elapsed time since the server has respond to each respective TCP connection request. When the server attempts to place a new TCP connection request on a full embryonic queue, the host, via the TCP protocol, will remove the entry at the end of the embryonic queue. The last entry, due to the high timer value, is more likely to having performed unsuccessful attempts at completing a connection.