diff --git a/roles/mirrormanager/mirrorlist_proxy/files/restart-mirrorlist-containers b/roles/mirrormanager/mirrorlist_proxy/files/restart-mirrorlist-containers
index 5ef79ccf1f..6087773b91 100644
--- a/roles/mirrormanager/mirrorlist_proxy/files/restart-mirrorlist-containers
+++ b/roles/mirrormanager/mirrorlist_proxy/files/restart-mirrorlist-containers
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # This job handles hourly restarting mirrorlist container(s) and making sure all is well. 
 #
 
-# Initial expected state is mirrorlist1 running, mirrorlist2 not running and new pkl
+# Initial expected state is mirrorlist1 running, mirrorlist2 running and new pkl
 
 if [ ! -f /srv/mirrorlist/data/mirrorlist2/global_netblocks.txt ];
 then
@@ -60,9 +60,14 @@ cp -a /srv/mirrorlist/data/mirrorlist1/* /srv/mirrorlist/data/mirrorlist2/
 echo "disable server mirror-lists-backend/mirrorlist-local2" | nc -U /var/run/haproxy-admin >& /dev/null
 sleep 1
 
-# stop mirrorlist2
-systemctl stop mirrorlist2
+# restart mirrorlist2
+systemctl restart mirrorlist2
+
+sleep 5
+curl -q -H mirrors.fedoraproject.org "http://localhost:18082/metalink?repo=rawhide&arch=x86_64" -o/dev/null -s -f --retry 50 --retry-delay 10 --retry-connrefused --retry-max-time 180
+if [ $? != 0 ]; then
+	echo "ERROR: mirrorlist2 did not restart correctly"
+	exit 1
+fi
 
-# Now that it's stopped, we can re-enable it. That makes sure that if anything went wrong, we
-# still have it enabled
 echo "enable server mirror-lists-backend/mirrorlist-local2" | nc -U /var/run/haproxy-admin >& /dev/null