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Wireshark shows you exactly what has happened but rarely why it has happened. Here a firewall somewhere close to the server (because the RST has come for each SYN but the RST for the first SYN has come after the second SYN was sent) may be responsible for rejecting the connection, or the server application itself (e.g. if the apache server's configuration only permits connections from some addresses/subnets).

So the next capture point should be the server, to see whether the SYN has arrived there or not.

Wireshark shows you exactly what has happened but rarely why it has happened. Here a firewall somewhere close to the server (because the RST has come for each SYN but the RST for the first SYN has come as late as after the second SYN was sent) may be responsible for rejecting the connection, or the server application itself (e.g. if the apache server's configuration only permits connections from some addresses/subnets).

So the next capture point should be the server, to see whether the SYN has arrived there or not.