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-rw-r--r--synapse/util/retryutils.py2
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diff --git a/synapse/util/retryutils.py b/synapse/util/retryutils.py
index 0961dd5b25..5c7fc1afb4 100644
--- a/synapse/util/retryutils.py
+++ b/synapse/util/retryutils.py
@@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter(object):
             elif exc_val.code == 404 and self.backoff_on_404:
                 valid_err_code = False
             elif exc_val.code == 429:
+                # 429 is us being aggresively rate limited, so lets rate limit
+                # ourselves.
                 valid_err_code = False
             elif exc_val.code < 500:
                 valid_err_code = True