diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index 7faf7a2fe..55d1c0852 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+6 June 2017: Wouter
+	- Add an explicit type cast for TCP FASTOPEN fix.
+
 1 June 2017: Ralph
 	- Fix #1274: automatically trim chroot path from dnscrypt key/cert paths
 	  (from Manu Bretelle).
diff --git a/util/netevent.c b/util/netevent.c
index d3955aae7..6990cdb36 100644
--- a/util/netevent.c
+++ b/util/netevent.c
@@ -1417,7 +1417,7 @@ comm_point_tcp_handle_write(int fd, struct comm_point* c)
 			/* fallthrough to nonFASTOPEN
 			 * (MSG_FASTOPEN on Linux 3 produces EPIPE)
 			 * we need to perform connect() */
-			if(connect(fd, &c->repinfo.addr, c->repinfo.addrlen) == -1) {
+			if(connect(fd, (struct sockaddr *)&c->repinfo.addr, c->repinfo.addrlen) == -1) {
 #ifdef EINPROGRESS
 				if(errno == EINPROGRESS)
 					return 1; /* wait until connect done*/
@@ -1428,7 +1428,7 @@ comm_point_tcp_handle_write(int fd, struct comm_point* c)
 					return 1; /* wait until connect done*/
 #endif
 				if(tcp_connect_errno_needs_log(
-					&c->repinfo.addr, c->repinfo.addrlen)) {
+					(struct sockaddr *)&c->repinfo.addr, c->repinfo.addrlen)) {
 					log_err_addr("outgoing tcp: connect after EPIPE for fastopen",
 						strerror(errno), &c->repinfo.addr, c->repinfo.addrlen);
 				}