diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d2545b3..a7a64dd 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 0.5.0
 =====
+  23-Nov-2003:	- got the gethostbyname() failure problem solved.
+		  (the resolver needs a shared lib that was tried
+		  to load AFTER chrooting...)
   22-Nov-2003:	- utils.c: use gethostbyname_r() in favor of
 		  gethostbyname - if available (siproxd uses threads!)
 		- some small items & cleanup
diff --git a/src/utils.c b/src/utils.c
index 77e7c46..d05f65d 100644
--- a/src/utils.c
+++ b/src/utils.c
@@ -233,6 +233,15 @@ void secure_enviroment (void) {
        * change root directory into chroot jail
        */
       if (configuration.chrootjail) {
+         /* !!!
+          * Before chrooting I must at leat once trigger the resolver
+          * as it loads some dynamic libraries. Once chrootet
+          * these libraries will *not* be found and gethostbyname()
+          * calls will simply fail (return NULL pointer and h_errno=0).
+          * Took me a while to figure THIS one out
+          */
+         struct in_addr dummy;
+         get_ip_by_host("foobar", &dummy);
          DEBUGC(DBCLASS_CONFIG,"chrooting to %s",
                 configuration.chrootjail);
          sts = chroot(configuration.chrootjail);