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-rw-r--r--synapse/handlers/room_list.py6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/handlers/room_list.py b/synapse/handlers/room_list.py
index 6284bcdfbc..fae2c098e3 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/room_list.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/room_list.py
@@ -383,7 +383,11 @@ class RoomListHandler(BaseHandler):
                 ):
                     logger.debug("Falling back to locally-filtered /publicRooms")
                 else:
-                    raise  # Not an error that should trigger a fallback.
+                    # Not an error that should trigger a fallback.
+                    raise SynapseError(502, "Failed to fetch room list")
+            except RequestSendFailed:
+                # Not an error that should trigger a fallback.
+                raise SynapseError(502, "Failed to fetch room list")
 
             # if we reach this point, then we fall back to the situation where
             # we currently don't support searching across federation, so we have