diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 7e09c47a88..a55b795514 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     HDFS-2776. Missing interface annotation on JournalSet. 
     (Brandon Li via jitendra)
 
+    HDFS-2768. BackupNode stop can not close proxy connections because
+    it is not a proxy instance. (Uma Maheswara Rao G via eli)
+
 Release 0.23.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/BackupNode.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/BackupNode.java
index 6ef843e296..84d1c9f8a6 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/BackupNode.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/BackupNode.java
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.protocol.NamenodeProtocol;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.protocol.NamenodeRegistration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.protocol.NamespaceInfo;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC;
 import org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation;
@@ -69,7 +70,7 @@ public class BackupNode extends NameNode {
   private static final String BN_SERVICE_RPC_ADDRESS_KEY = DFSConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_BACKUP_SERVICE_RPC_ADDRESS_KEY;
 
   /** Name-node proxy */
-  NamenodeProtocol namenode;
+  NamenodeProtocolTranslatorPB namenode;
   /** Name-node RPC address */
   String nnRpcAddress;
   /** Name-node HTTP address */
@@ -189,7 +190,7 @@ public void stop() {
     }
     // Stop the RPC client
     if (namenode != null) {
-      RPC.stopProxy(namenode);
+      IOUtils.cleanup(LOG, namenode);
     }
     namenode = null;
     // Stop the checkpoint manager
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/EditLogBackupOutputStream.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/EditLogBackupOutputStream.java
index 867a93d058..8c3ad2ecdb 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/EditLogBackupOutputStream.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/EditLogBackupOutputStream.java
@@ -24,10 +24,9 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HdfsConfiguration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.JournalProtocolTranslatorPB;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.Storage;
-import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.protocol.JournalProtocol;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.protocol.NamenodeRegistration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.DataOutputBuffer;
-import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils;
 
 /**
@@ -41,7 +40,7 @@
 class EditLogBackupOutputStream extends EditLogOutputStream {
   static int DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE = 256;
 
-  private JournalProtocol backupNode;        // RPC proxy to backup node
+  private JournalProtocolTranslatorPB backupNode;  // RPC proxy to backup node
   private NamenodeRegistration bnRegistration;  // backup node registration
   private NamenodeRegistration nnRegistration;  // active node registration
   private EditsDoubleBuffer doubleBuf;
@@ -94,14 +93,14 @@ public void close() throws IOException {
       throw new IOException("BackupEditStream has " + size +
                           " records still to be flushed and cannot be closed.");
     } 
-    RPC.stopProxy(backupNode); // stop the RPC threads
+    IOUtils.cleanup(Storage.LOG, backupNode); // stop the RPC threads
     doubleBuf.close();
     doubleBuf = null;
   }
 
   @Override
   public void abort() throws IOException {
-    RPC.stopProxy(backupNode);
+    IOUtils.cleanup(Storage.LOG, backupNode);
     doubleBuf = null;
   }