diff --git a/pkg/controller/daemon/daemoncontroller.go b/pkg/controller/daemon/daemoncontroller.go
index 3bda180d06..cef491a999 100644
--- a/pkg/controller/daemon/daemoncontroller.go
+++ b/pkg/controller/daemon/daemoncontroller.go
@@ -51,9 +51,8 @@ const (
 	// Daemon sets will periodically check that their daemon pods are running as expected.
 	FullDaemonSetResyncPeriod = 30 * time.Second // TODO: Figure out if this time seems reasonable.
 
-	// Realistic value of the burstReplica field for the replication manager based off
-	// performance requirements for kubernetes 1.0.
-	BurstReplicas = 500
+	// The value of 250 is chosen b/c values that are too high can cause registry DoS issues
+	BurstReplicas = 250
 
 	// If sending a status upate to API server fails, we retry a finite number of times.
 	StatusUpdateRetries = 1