diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 6cd10aa03..72e8d72ca 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 [NOT YET RELEASED]
 
+o Fixed the Idle Scan (-sI) so that scanning multiple hosts doesn't
+  retest the zombie proxy and reinitialize all of the associated data
+  at the beginning of each run. [Kris]
+
 o [NSE] Added jdwp-version.nse, a script from Michael Schierl that
   finds the version of a Java Debug Wire Protocol server.
 
diff --git a/idle_scan.cc b/idle_scan.cc
index fde4ce365..a7bad3a07 100644
--- a/idle_scan.cc
+++ b/idle_scan.cc
@@ -997,6 +997,7 @@ void idle_scan(Target *target, u16 *portarray, int numports,
   /* If this is the first call,  */
   if (!*lastproxy) {
     initialize_idleproxy(&proxy, proxyName, target->v4hostip(), ports);
+    strncpy(lastproxy, proxyName, sizeof(lastproxy));
   }
 
   starttime = time(NULL);