diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 5dc5b54fcfb..d96a0d9846d 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ Release 2.6.1 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-3207. Secondary filter matches entites which do not have the key being
     filtered for. (Zhijie Shen via xgong)
 
+    YARN-3238. Connection timeouts to nodemanagers are retried at
+    multiple levels (Jason Lowe via xgong)
+
 Release 2.6.0 - 2014-11-18
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/client/ServerProxy.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/client/ServerProxy.java
index b6fea62ec78..60245604c20 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/client/ServerProxy.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/client/ServerProxy.java
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ public class ServerProxy {
     exceptionToPolicyMap.put(ConnectException.class, retryPolicy);
     exceptionToPolicyMap.put(NoRouteToHostException.class, retryPolicy);
     exceptionToPolicyMap.put(UnknownHostException.class, retryPolicy);
-    exceptionToPolicyMap.put(ConnectTimeoutException.class, retryPolicy);
     exceptionToPolicyMap.put(RetriableException.class, retryPolicy);
     exceptionToPolicyMap.put(SocketException.class, retryPolicy);