diff --git a/src/cluster.c b/src/cluster.c
index ddd9937c6..6e3fc8b00 100644
--- a/src/cluster.c
+++ b/src/cluster.c
@@ -2774,7 +2774,7 @@ void clusterHandleSlaveFailover(void) {
      * and wait for replies), and the failover retry time (the time to wait
      * before trying to get voted again).
      *
-     * Timeout is MIN(NODE_TIMEOUT*2,2000) milliseconds.
+     * Timeout is MAX(NODE_TIMEOUT*2,2000) milliseconds.
      * Retry is two times the Timeout.
      */
     auth_timeout = server.cluster_node_timeout*2;