diff --git a/hack/local-up-cluster.sh b/hack/local-up-cluster.sh
index 6fb3c40da8d..f2cda8be625 100755
--- a/hack/local-up-cluster.sh
+++ b/hack/local-up-cluster.sh
@@ -582,9 +582,6 @@ function start_apiserver {
 
     # Wait for kube-apiserver to come up before launching the rest of the components.
     echo "Waiting for apiserver to come up"
-    # this uses the API port because if you don't have any authenticator, you can't seem to use the secure port at all.
-    # this matches what happened with the combination in 1.4.
-    # TODO change this conditionally based on whether API_PORT is on or off
     kube::util::wait_for_url "https://${API_HOST_IP}:${API_SECURE_PORT}/healthz" "apiserver: " 1 ${WAIT_FOR_URL_API_SERVER} \
         || { echo "check apiserver logs: ${APISERVER_LOG}" ; exit 1 ; }