diff --git a/roles/mirrormanager/mirrorlist_proxy/files/restart-mirrorlist-containers b/roles/mirrormanager/mirrorlist_proxy/files/restart-mirrorlist-containers
index 1ba1cd5e00..42fad3c9a9 100644
--- a/roles/mirrormanager/mirrorlist_proxy/files/restart-mirrorlist-containers
+++ b/roles/mirrormanager/mirrorlist_proxy/files/restart-mirrorlist-containers
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ fi
 
 # start mirrorlist2 (old pkl and see that it's processing ok)
 systemctl start mirrorlist2
+echo "enable server mirror-lists/mirrorlist-local2" | nc -U /var/run/haproxy-admin
 
 sleep 15
 curl -q -H mirrors.fedoraproject.org "http://localhost:18082/metalink?repo=rawhide&arch=x86_64" -o/dev/null -s -f
@@ -50,5 +51,13 @@ fi
 # copy new pkl to mirrorlist2
 cp -a /srv/mirrorlist/data/mirrorlist1/* /srv/mirrorlist/data/mirrorlist2/
 
+# Drain mirrorlist2
+echo "disable server mirror-lists/mirrorlist-local2" | nc -U /var/run/haproxy-admin
+sleep 1
+
 # stop mirrorlist2
 systemctl stop mirrorlist2
+
+# Now that it's stopped, we can re-enable it. That makes sure that if anything went wrong, we
+# still have it enabled
+echo "enable server mirror-lists/mirrorlist-local2" | nc -U /var/run/haproxy-admin