diff --git a/lib/tls.js b/lib/tls.js
index 55acac7ff2..0edd9d200f 100644
--- a/lib/tls.js
+++ b/lib/tls.js
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ function onhandshakestart() {
     // Defer the error event to the next tick. We're being called from OpenSSL's
     // state machine and OpenSSL is not re-entrant. We cannot allow the user's
     // callback to destroy the connection right now, it would crash and burn.
-    process.nextTick(function() {
+    setImmediate(function() {
       var err = new Error('TLS session renegotiation attack detected.');
       if (self.cleartext) self.cleartext.emit('error', err);
     });