diff --git a/roles/haproxy/templates/haproxy.cfg b/roles/haproxy/templates/haproxy.cfg
index e88684675c..1fe79f4294 100644
--- a/roles/haproxy/templates/haproxy.cfg
+++ b/roles/haproxy/templates/haproxy.cfg
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ backend fedmsg-raw-zmq-outbound-backend
     timeout queue 5000
     timeout server 86400000
     timeout connect 86400000
-    server  localhost localhost:9942 weight 1 maxconn 16384
+    server  localhost 127.0.0.1:9942 weight 1 maxconn 16384
 
 # While the above fedmsg-raw-zmq-outbound forwards incoming connections to an
 # instance of the "fedmsg-gateway" daemon (which pushes internal messages out),