diff --git a/util/perl/TLSProxy/Proxy.pm b/util/perl/TLSProxy/Proxy.pm
index cc21bd6ac94ad551a100ffb528b88a953b97e327..d778d0e70da7c81a7b36ffcdd391827eb6c0d97a 100644
--- a/util/perl/TLSProxy/Proxy.pm
+++ b/util/perl/TLSProxy/Proxy.pm
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ sub clientstart
     print "Connection opened\n";
 
     # Now connect to the server
-    my $retry = 10;
+    my $retry = 50;
     my $server_sock;
     #We loop over this a few times because sometimes s_server can take a while
     #to start up