diff --git a/node/server_test.go b/node/server_test.go
index 3dbe603bcfc049f6a421c9641a49d43c0cbaecc8..cbd06ed4682e67b4bcfe91cfef9bbb61a1d6a361 100644
--- a/node/server_test.go
+++ b/node/server_test.go
@@ -138,6 +138,10 @@ func TestServer(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	log.Printf("stream /stream.ogg created successfully")
 
+	// Sleep a small amount of time to avoid spurious 404 errors
+	// due to etcd propagation.
+	time.Sleep(500 * time.Millisecond)
+
 	// Try to read from the stream and verify the upstream data.
 	// Force connections always to node1 (the HTTP redirect will
 	// have a DNS name, so we need to override that).