diff --git a/connectd/connectd.c b/connectd/connectd.c
index 4e44c49ac83e..857f118e7934 100644
--- a/connectd/connectd.c
+++ b/connectd/connectd.c
@@ -200,8 +200,8 @@ static bool broken_resolver(struct daemon *daemon)
 	const char *hostname = "nxdomain-test.doesntexist";
 	int err;
 
-	/* If they told us to never do DNS queries, don't even do this one */
-	if (!daemon->use_dns) {
+	/* If they told us to never do DNS queries, don't even do this one and also not if we just say that we don't */
+	if (!daemon->use_dns || daemon->use_proxy_always) {
 		daemon->broken_resolver_response = NULL;
 		return false;
 	}
@@ -1182,7 +1182,7 @@ static struct io_plan *connect_init(struct io_conn *conn,
 
 	if (broken_resolver(daemon)) {
 		status_debug("Broken DNS resolver detected, will check for "
-			     "dummy replies");
+				"dummy replies");
 	}
 
 	/* Figure out our addresses. */