diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-rbf/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/federation/router/RouterRpcClient.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-rbf/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/federation/router/RouterRpcClient.java
index fb068bfc331..c1ab24baf47 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-rbf/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/federation/router/RouterRpcClient.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-rbf/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/federation/router/RouterRpcClient.java
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.net.ConnectException;
 import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.net.SocketException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collection;
@@ -582,9 +583,9 @@ private Object invoke(String nsId, int retryCount, final Method method,
    * @return If the exception comes from an unavailable subcluster.
    */
   public static boolean isUnavailableException(IOException ioe) {
-    if (ioe instanceof ConnectException ||
-        ioe instanceof ConnectTimeoutException ||
+    if (ioe instanceof ConnectTimeoutException ||
         ioe instanceof EOFException ||
+        ioe instanceof SocketException ||
         ioe instanceof StandbyException) {
       return true;
     }