# Is zen discovery fd ping\_retries setting is for the maximum amount of time to rejoin the cluster?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-zen-discovery-fd-ping-retries-setting-is-for-the-maximum-amount-of-time-to-rejoin-the-cluster/45163>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 22, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-zen-discovery-fd-ping-retries-setting-is-for-the-maximum-amount-of-time-to-rejoin-the-cluster/45163 "2016-03-22T22:04:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![dany](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dany/32/8131_2.png) [@dany](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dany)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-zen-discovery-fd-ping-retries-setting-is-for-the-maximum-amount-of-time-to-rejoin-the-cluster/45163/1 "2016-03-22T22:04:05Z")

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I am planning to set the ping\_timeout ping\_retries with the the following,

zen.fd:  
ping\_retries: 20

so that if there is a networking failure exists for \<10 minutes, the node will join back assuming this setting is for the max amount of time master will attempt to join back a node to the cluster.

But I am skeptical about that. The doc does not clearly says that [[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-discovery-zen.html#fault-detection](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-discovery-zen.html#fault-detection) ].

Is that the setting is just the time to detect that it’s failed, or is it also the max amount of time it will attempt to re-join a cluster?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-zen-discovery-fd-ping-retries-setting-is-for-the-maximum-amount-of-time-to-rejoin-the-cluster/45163/2 "2017-07-05T23:06:06Z")

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