diff --git a/test/sequential/test-quic-preferred-address-ipv6.js b/test/sequential/test-quic-preferred-address-ipv6.js
index 07623a81dfb575..608fe62fa8ecec 100644
--- a/test/sequential/test-quic-preferred-address-ipv6.js
+++ b/test/sequential/test-quic-preferred-address-ipv6.js
@@ -8,7 +8,38 @@ if (!common.hasQuic)
 if (!common.hasIPv6)
   common.skip('missing ipv6');
 
-const Countdown = require('../common/countdown');
+// TODO(@jasnell): Temporarily disabling the preferred address
+// tests because we need to rethink through how exactly this
+// mechanism should work and how we should test it.
+//
+// The way the preferred address mechanism is supposed to work
+// is this: A server might be exposed via multiple network
+// interfaces / addresses. The preferred address is the one that
+// clients should use. If a client uses one of the non-preferred
+// addresses to initially connect to the server, the server will
+// include the preferred address in it's initial transport params
+// back to the client over the original connection. The client
+// then can make a choice: it can either choose to ignore the
+// advertised preferred address and continue using the original,
+// or it can transition the in-flight connection to the preferred
+// address without having to restart the connection. In the latter
+// case, the connection will start making use of the preferred
+// address but it might not do so immediately.
+//
+// To test this mechanism properly, we should have our server
+// configured on multiple endpoints with one of those marked
+// as the preferred. The connection should start on one and preceed
+// uninterrupted to completion. If the preferred address policy
+// is "accept", the client will accept and transition to the servers
+// preferred address transparently, without interupting the flow.
+//
+// The current test is deficient because the server is only listening
+// on a single address which is also advertised as the preferred.
+// While the client should get the advertisement, we're not actually
+// making use of the preferred address advertisement and nothing on
+// the connection changes.
+common.skip('preferred address test currently disabled');
+
 const assert = require('assert');
 const fixtures = require('../common/fixtures');
 const key = fixtures.readKey('agent1-key.pem', 'binary');
@@ -25,12 +56,6 @@ const server = createQuicSocket({ endpoint: { type: 'udp6' } });
 
 const kALPN = 'zzz';  // ALPN can be overriden to whatever we want
 
-const countdown = new Countdown(1, () => {
-  debug('Countdown expired. Destroying sockets');
-  server.close();
-  client.close();
-});
-
 server.listen({ key, cert, ca, alpn: kALPN, preferredAddress: {
   port: common.PORT,
   address: '::',
@@ -87,7 +112,8 @@ server.on('ready', common.mustCall(() => {
     stream.resume();
 
     stream.on('close', common.mustCall(() => {
-      countdown.dec();
+      server.close();
+      client.close();
     }));
   }));
 
diff --git a/test/sequential/test-quic-preferred-address.js b/test/sequential/test-quic-preferred-address.js
index a75aa6284c304c..b2537c636b741a 100644
--- a/test/sequential/test-quic-preferred-address.js
+++ b/test/sequential/test-quic-preferred-address.js
@@ -5,7 +5,38 @@ const common = require('../common');
 if (!common.hasQuic)
   common.skip('missing quic');
 
-const Countdown = require('../common/countdown');
+// TODO(@jasnell): Temporarily disabling the preferred address
+// tests because we need to rethink through how exactly this
+// mechanism should work and how we should test it.
+//
+// The way the preferred address mechanism is supposed to work
+// is this: A server might be exposed via multiple network
+// interfaces / addresses. The preferred address is the one that
+// clients should use. If a client uses one of the non-preferred
+// addresses to initially connect to the server, the server will
+// include the preferred address in it's initial transport params
+// back to the client over the original connection. The client
+// then can make a choice: it can either choose to ignore the
+// advertised preferred address and continue using the original,
+// or it can transition the in-flight connection to the preferred
+// address without having to restart the connection. In the latter
+// case, the connection will start making use of the preferred
+// address but it might not do so immediately.
+//
+// To test this mechanism properly, we should have our server
+// configured on multiple endpoints with one of those marked
+// as the preferred. The connection should start on one and preceed
+// uninterrupted to completion. If the preferred address policy
+// is "accept", the client will accept and transition to the servers
+// preferred address transparently, without interupting the flow.
+//
+// The current test is deficient because the server is only listening
+// on a single address which is also advertised as the preferred.
+// While the client should get the advertisement, we're not actually
+// making use of the preferred address advertisement and nothing on
+// the connection changes.
+common.skip('preferred address test currently disabled');
+
 const assert = require('assert');
 const fixtures = require('../common/fixtures');
 const key = fixtures.readKey('agent1-key.pem', 'binary');
@@ -22,17 +53,19 @@ const server = createQuicSocket();
 
 const kALPN = 'zzz';  // ALPN can be overriden to whatever we want
 
-const countdown = new Countdown(1, () => {
-  debug('Countdown expired. Destroying sockets');
-  server.close();
-  client.close();
-});
-
-server.listen({ key, cert, ca, alpn: kALPN, preferredAddress: {
+server.listen({
   port: common.PORT,
   address: '0.0.0.0',
-  type: 'udp4',
-} });
+  key,
+  cert,
+  ca,
+  alpn: kALPN,
+  preferredAddress: {
+    port: common.PORT,
+    address: '0.0.0.0',
+    type: 'udp4',
+  }
+});
 
 server.on('session', common.mustCall((session) => {
   debug('QuicServerSession Created');
@@ -59,7 +92,7 @@ server.on('ready', common.mustCall(() => {
     cert,
     ca,
     alpn: kALPN,
-    preferredAddressPolicy: 'accept' } });
+  } });
 
   client.on('close', common.mustCall());
 
@@ -67,6 +100,7 @@ server.on('ready', common.mustCall(() => {
     address: 'localhost',
     port: endpoint.address.port,
     servername: 'localhost',
+    preferredAddressPolicy: 'accept',
   });
 
   req.on('ready', common.mustCall(() => {
@@ -83,7 +117,8 @@ server.on('ready', common.mustCall(() => {
     stream.resume();
 
     stream.on('close', common.mustCall(() => {
-      countdown.dec();
+      server.close();
+      client.close();
     }));
   }));