diff --git a/plugin/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authc/ldap/support/SessionFactoryLoadBalancingTests.java b/plugin/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authc/ldap/support/SessionFactoryLoadBalancingTests.java
index 9330ae5ea6d..adac30632df 100644
--- a/plugin/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authc/ldap/support/SessionFactoryLoadBalancingTests.java
+++ b/plugin/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/authc/ldap/support/SessionFactoryLoadBalancingTests.java
@@ -20,14 +20,12 @@ import org.elasticsearch.xpack.ssl.SSLService;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.InetAddress;
-import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
 import java.net.Socket;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
 
-import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.greaterThanOrEqualTo;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.not;
@@ -57,7 +55,6 @@ public class SessionFactoryLoadBalancingTests extends LdapTestCase {
         }
     }
 
-    @AwaitsFix(bugUrl = "https://github.com/elastic/x-pack-elasticsearch/issues/1195")
     public void testRoundRobinWithFailures() throws Exception {
         assumeTrue("at least one ldap server should be present for this test", ldapServers.length > 1);
         logger.debug("using [{}] ldap servers, urls {}", ldapServers.length, ldapUrls());
@@ -103,13 +100,6 @@ public class SessionFactoryLoadBalancingTests extends LdapTestCase {
                 Runnable runnable = () -> {
                     try (Socket socket = new MockSocket(InetAddress.getByName("localhost"), port)) {
                         logger.debug("opened socket [{}] and blocking other connections", socket);
-                        // ensure we cannot open another socket
-                        IOException e = expectThrows(IOException.class, () -> {
-                            try (MockSocket mockSocket = new MockSocket()) {
-                                mockSocket.connect(new InetSocketAddress(InetAddress.getByName("localhost"), port), 500);
-                            }
-                        });
-                        assertThat(e.getMessage(), containsString("timed out"));
                         latch.countDown();
                         closeLatch.await();
                     } catch (IOException | InterruptedException e) {
@@ -126,6 +116,7 @@ public class SessionFactoryLoadBalancingTests extends LdapTestCase {
 
             latch.await();
             final int numberOfIterations = randomIntBetween(1, 5);
+            // go one iteration through and attempt a bind
             for (int iteration = 0; iteration < numberOfIterations; iteration++) {
                 logger.debug("iteration [{}]", iteration);
                 for (Integer port : ports) {