How to increase the connection retry period for Jenkins slave nodes

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I have a distributed Jenkins setup with many slave nodes. Sometimes when the master nodes get rebooted, it takes a while for it to come back up and I would lose all slave node. Is there a way to set the retry period for the slave nodes? I would like to increase it to say one hour, or keep retrying indefinitely.

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As far as I know, there is no way to set the slave connection retry interval without changing the source code. – gareth_bowles

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According to Launching slave.jar from from console it's supposed to happen the other way round:

slave.jar is meant to be launched by Jenkins. [...] slave.jar is not meant to initiate a connection to the master on its own

There's also an option to Write your own script to launch Jenkins slaves.