diff --git a/integration-tests/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/core/PeersV2NodeRefreshIT.java b/integration-tests/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/core/PeersV2NodeRefreshIT.java
index 9feb7bb965f..adc29bb44a5 100644
--- a/integration-tests/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/core/PeersV2NodeRefreshIT.java
+++ b/integration-tests/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/core/PeersV2NodeRefreshIT.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import com.datastax.oss.protocol.internal.request.Query;
 import com.datastax.oss.simulacron.common.cluster.ClusterSpec;
 import com.datastax.oss.simulacron.common.cluster.QueryLog;
+import com.datastax.oss.simulacron.server.BindNodeException;
 import com.datastax.oss.simulacron.server.BoundCluster;
 import com.datastax.oss.simulacron.server.Server;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
@@ -36,13 +37,59 @@
 /** Test for JAVA-2654. */
 public class PeersV2NodeRefreshIT {
 
+  // Simulacron's "multiple nodes per IP" mode (needed here to emulate several nodes sharing a
+  // single address, as system.peers_v2 distinguishes nodes by (peer, peer_port)) always binds
+  // nodes to consecutive ports on a loopback address starting at port 49152 -- the first port of
+  // the OS ephemeral/dynamic port range on both Linux (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range,
+  // typically 32768-60999) and macOS (49152-65535). That range is also what the kernel hands out
+  // as the *source* port for any outbound client socket opened by any process on the machine,
+  // including other integration tests' driver connections running concurrently in this same
+  // build. When the kernel happens to allocate 49152 as an ephemeral source port at the exact
+  // moment this test tries to bind it as a *listening* socket, Simulacron fails with
+  // BindNodeException ("Failed to bind ... to /127.0.0.1:49152"). This is a real,
+  // previously-reported flake (see https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/issues/951, which was
+  // closed after an unrelated fix for a different flaky test happened to land around the same
+  // time as a CI re-run that passed -- the actual Simulacron port race was never fixed).
+  //
+  // Ideally this test would sidestep the collision entirely by binding to a fixed, non-ephemeral
+  // starting port via Server.Builder#withAddressResolver(...). However, the vendored
+  // com.scylladb.oss.simulacron:simulacron-native-server:0.14.0.0 unconditionally re-creates a
+  // brand-new `new NodePerPortResolver()` (hardcoded to port 49152) inside build() whenever
+  // withMultipleNodesPerIp(true) is set, silently discarding any resolver configured via
+  // withAddressResolver(...) -- confirmed by decompiling the actual jar (this is a deviation
+  // from the upstream datastax/simulacron behavior, where withAddressResolver called after
+  // withMultipleNodesPerIp is honored). Since the starting port can't be changed through the
+  // public API, the only effective mitigation available here is to retry the whole
+  // register-and-bind attempt with a fresh Server/resolver and a short backoff, which gives the
+  // OS a chance to move its ephemeral allocator away from port 49152 before the next attempt.
+  private static final int MAX_BIND_ATTEMPTS = 5;
+
   private static Server peersV2Server;
   private static BoundCluster cluster;
 
   @BeforeClass
-  public static void setup() {
-    peersV2Server = Server.builder().withMultipleNodesPerIp(true).build();
-    cluster = peersV2Server.register(ClusterSpec.builder().withNodes(2));
+  public static void setup() throws InterruptedException {
+    RuntimeException lastFailure = null;
+    for (int attempt = 1; attempt <= MAX_BIND_ATTEMPTS; attempt++) {
+      Server server = Server.builder().withMultipleNodesPerIp(true).build();
+      try {
+        cluster = server.register(ClusterSpec.builder().withNodes(2));
+        peersV2Server = server;
+        return;
+      } catch (RuntimeException e) {
+        // Always tear down the server we just created, whether or not we're going to retry, to
+        // avoid leaking its event loop threads.
+        server.close();
+        boolean isBindRace = e.getCause() instanceof BindNodeException;
+        if (!isBindRace || attempt == MAX_BIND_ATTEMPTS) {
+          throw e;
+        }
+        lastFailure = e;
+        Thread.sleep(200L * attempt);
+      }
+    }
+    // Unreachable, but keeps the compiler happy about a definite return/throw.
+    throw lastFailure;
   }
 
   @AfterClass