diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/HBaseInterClusterReplicationEndpoint.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/HBaseInterClusterReplicationEndpoint.java
index 39e68bf9eb44..d895920a51a8 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/HBaseInterClusterReplicationEndpoint.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/HBaseInterClusterReplicationEndpoint.java
@@ -42,11 +42,13 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.AsyncRegionServerAdmin;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Connection;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionFactory;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.CallTimeoutException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.RpcServer;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.protobuf.ReplicationProtobufUtil;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.NoSuchColumnFamilyException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.wal.WALUtil;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.replication.HBaseReplicationEndpoint;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.replication.ReplicationUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.CommonFSUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.EnvironmentEdgeManager;
@@ -425,6 +427,7 @@ private long parallelReplicate(ReplicateContext replicateContext, List<List<Entr
   @Override
   public boolean replicate(ReplicateContext replicateContext) {
     int sleepMultiplier = 1;
+    int initialTimeout = replicateContext.getTimeout();
 
     if (!peersSelected && this.isRunning()) {
       connectToPeers();
@@ -492,6 +495,9 @@ public boolean replicate(ReplicateContext replicateContext) {
           } else if (ioe instanceof ConnectException || ioe instanceof UnknownHostException) {
             LOG.warn("{} Peer is unavailable, rechecking all sinks: ", logPeerId(), ioe);
             chooseSinks();
+          } else if (ioe instanceof CallTimeoutException) {
+            replicateContext
+              .setTimeout(ReplicationUtils.getAdaptiveTimeout(initialTimeout, sleepMultiplier));
           } else {
             LOG.warn("{} Can't replicate because of a local or network error: ", logPeerId(), ioe);
           }