diff --git a/local.conf b/sysctl.d/local.conf
similarity index 76%
rename from local.conf
rename to sysctl.d/local.conf
index 555f690..000eadd 100644
--- a/local.conf
+++ b/sysctl.d/local.conf
@@ -4,9 +4,20 @@ net.ipv4.tcp_notsent_lowat = 131072
 net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 30
 net.ipv4.tcp_rfc1337 = 1
 net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse = 1
-
 net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 4096
 
+# 31s with initial 1s RTO
+net.ipv4.tcp_syn_retries = 4
+
+# 15s with initial 1s RTO
+net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries = 3
+
+# 102.2s with minimum 0.2s RTO
+net.ipv4.tcp_retries2 = 8
+
+# 25.4s with minimum 0.2s RTO
+net.ipv4.tcp_orphan_retries = 6
+
 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65535
 
 net.ipv4.conf.all.send_redirects = 0