diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index 4f648eaf9..8f62033d2 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+27 January 2016: Wouter
+	- Made netbsd sendmsg test nonfatal, in case of false positives.
+
 26 January 2016: Wouter
 	- Fix #734: chown the pidfile if it resides inside the chroot.
 	- Use arc4random instead of random in tests (because it is
diff --git a/util/netevent.c b/util/netevent.c
index f198b8bc4..d7ab218aa 100644
--- a/util/netevent.c
+++ b/util/netevent.c
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ comm_point_send_udp_msg_if(struct comm_point *c, sldns_buffer* packet,
 #ifdef __NetBSD__
 		/* netbsd 7 has IP_PKTINFO for recv but not send */
 		if(errno == EINVAL && r->srctype == 4)
-			fatal_exit("sendmsg: No support for sendmsg(IP_PKTINFO). "
+			log_err("sendmsg: No support for sendmsg(IP_PKTINFO). "
 				"Please disable interface-automatic");
 #endif
 		return 0;