diff --git a/tractor/_ipc.py b/tractor/_ipc.py
index 4d62f1d..e7e8f5e 100644
--- a/tractor/_ipc.py
+++ b/tractor/_ipc.py
@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ class MsgspecTCPStream(MsgpackTCPStream):
 
             except (
                 ValueError,
+                ConnectionResetError,
 
                 # not sure entirely why we need this but without it we
                 # seem to be getting racy failures here on