diff --git a/mysql-test/include/ndb_wait_connected.inc b/mysql-test/include/ndb_wait_connected.inc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cfea94db1f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mysql-test/include/ndb_wait_connected.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Check that mysqld has reconnected to ndbd after
+# restart of ndbd
+#
+--disable_query_log
+--disable_result_log
+let $mysql_errno= 1;
+let $counter= 600;
+while ($mysql_errno)
+{
+  --error 0,157
+  CREATE TABLE ndb_wait_connected (a int primary key);
+  if ($mysql_errno)
+  {
+    if (!$counter)
+    {
+      die Failed waiting for mysqld to reconnect to ndbd;
+    }
+    dec $counter;
+    --sleep 0.1
+  }
+}
+DROP TABLE ndb_wait_connected;
+--enable_query_log
+--enable_result_log
+
+
diff --git a/mysql-test/suite/ndb_team/t/ndb_autodiscover.test b/mysql-test/suite/ndb_team/t/ndb_autodiscover.test
index 06d47693c10..e25bf4518a8 100644
--- a/mysql-test/suite/ndb_team/t/ndb_autodiscover.test
+++ b/mysql-test/suite/ndb_team/t/ndb_autodiscover.test
@@ -491,6 +491,7 @@ select * from t1;
 select * from t1;
 --exec $NDB_MGM --no-defaults -e "all start" > /dev/null
 --exec $NDB_TOOLS_DIR/ndb_waiter --no-defaults > /dev/null
+--source include/ndb_wait_connected.inc
 use test;
 drop database test_only_ndb_tables;