diff --git a/lib/_http_agent.js b/lib/_http_agent.js
index a4829526f6e138..86ad95fc9bd1f4 100644
--- a/lib/_http_agent.js
+++ b/lib/_http_agent.js
@@ -496,7 +496,10 @@ Agent.prototype.keepSocketAlive = function keepSocketAlive(socket) {
       const hint = RegExpPrototypeExec(/^timeout=(\d+)/, keepAliveHint)?.[1];
 
       if (hint) {
-        const serverHintTimeout = NumberParseInt(hint) * 1000;
+        // Let the timer expires before the announced timeout to reduce
+        // the likelihood of ECONNRESET errors
+        let serverHintTimeout = ( NumberParseInt(hint) * 1000 ) - 1000;
+        serverHintTimeout = serverHintTimeout > 0 ? serverHintTimeout : 0;
 
         if (serverHintTimeout < agentTimeout) {
           agentTimeout = serverHintTimeout;
diff --git a/lib/_http_server.js b/lib/_http_server.js
index d67669fea9433b..bbfda91401d26f 100644
--- a/lib/_http_server.js
+++ b/lib/_http_server.js
@@ -1010,7 +1010,9 @@ function resOnFinish(req, res, socket, state, server) {
     }
   } else if (state.outgoing.length === 0) {
     if (server.keepAliveTimeout && typeof socket.setTimeout === 'function') {
-      socket.setTimeout(server.keepAliveTimeout);
+      // Increase the internal timeout wrt the advertised value to reduce likeliwood of ECONNRESET errors
+      // due to race conditions between the client and server timeout calculation
+      socket.setTimeout(server.keepAliveTimeout + 1000);
       state.keepAliveTimeoutSet = true;
     }
   } else {