diff --git a/app/modules/crawler/lib/sync/p2p/p2p-candidate.ts b/app/modules/crawler/lib/sync/p2p/p2p-candidate.ts
index 56fca9b04b8781f9f514e5856ba6aae67eb05351..65366d71e2230803e8302085fb1e951b8c8fc90a 100644
--- a/app/modules/crawler/lib/sync/p2p/p2p-candidate.ts
+++ b/app/modules/crawler/lib/sync/p2p/p2p-candidate.ts
@@ -90,21 +90,30 @@ export class P2pCandidate {
     this.dlPromise = querablep(
       (async () => {
         // We try to download the blocks
-        let blocks: BlockDTO[] | null;
-        try {
-          blocks = await (this.api as IRemoteContacter).getBlocks(count, from);
-        } catch (e) {
-          // Unfortunately this can fail
-          blocks = null;
-          error = e;
+        let blocks: BlockDTO[] = [];
+        let tries = 5;
+        while (tries > 0) {
+          try {
+            blocks = await (this.api as IRemoteContacter).getBlocks(
+              count,
+              from
+            );
+          } catch (e) {
+            // Unfortunately this can fail
+            blocks = [];
+            this.logger.error(e);
+          }
+          if (blocks.length != count) {
+            this.logger.error("Wrong number of blocks from %s", this.hostName);
+            tries--;
+          } else {
+            break;
+          }
         }
         this.responseTimes.push(Date.now() - start);
         // Only keep a flow of 5 ttas for the node
         if (this.responseTimes.length > 5) this.responseTimes.shift();
         this.nbSuccess++;
-        if (error) {
-          throw error;
-        }
         return blocks;
       })()
     );