diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh
index d2ef1cf1317..bcb618e6fa2 100755
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ case $startStop in
     echo starting $command, logging to $log
     cd "$HADOOP_PREFIX"
     case $command in
-      namenode|secondarynamenode|datanode|journalnode|dfs|dfsadmin|fsck|balancer|zkfc|portmap|nfs3)
+      namenode|secondarynamenode|datanode|journalnode|dfs|dfsadmin|fsck|balancer|zkfc|portmap|nfs3|dfsrouter)
         if [ -z "$HADOOP_HDFS_HOME" ]; then
           hdfsScript="$HADOOP_PREFIX"/bin/hdfs
         else