diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index 2a8d8bf6c..e0b1fb8b3 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 24 March 2016: Wouter
 	- Document permit-small-holddown for 5011 debug.
+	- Fix #749: unbound-checkconf gets SIGSEGV when use against a
+	  malformatted conf file.
 
 23 March 2016: Wouter
 	- OpenSSL 1.1.0 portability, --disable-dsa configure option.
diff --git a/iterator/iter_fwd.c b/iterator/iter_fwd.c
index 0feee032c..3e580ca35 100644
--- a/iterator/iter_fwd.c
+++ b/iterator/iter_fwd.c
@@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ make_stub_holes(struct iter_forwards* fwd, struct config_file* cfg)
 	uint8_t* dname;
 	size_t dname_len;
 	for(s = cfg->stubs; s; s = s->next) {
+		if(!s->name) continue;
 		dname = sldns_str2wire_dname(s->name, &dname_len);
 		if(!dname) {
 			log_err("cannot parse stub name '%s'", s->name);