diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index a92e9495a..15c392749 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 	- Slightly smaller critical region in one case in infra cache.
 	- Fix timeouts to keep track of query type, A, AAAA and other, if
 	  another has caused timeout blacklist, different type can still probe.
+	- unit test fix for nomem_cnametopos.rpl race condition.
 
 9 February 2012: Wouter
 	- Fix AHX_BROKEN_MEMCMP for autoheader mess up of #undef in config.h.
diff --git a/testdata/nomem_cnametopos.rpl b/testdata/nomem_cnametopos.rpl
index df3a4bf41..860020946 100644
--- a/testdata/nomem_cnametopos.rpl
+++ b/testdata/nomem_cnametopos.rpl
@@ -275,6 +275,8 @@ SECTION QUESTION
 www.example.com. IN A
 ENTRY_END
 
+STEP 5 TRAFFIC
+
 ; recursion happens here.
 STEP 10 CHECK_ANSWER
 ENTRY_BEGIN