diff --git a/legacy/ecore/ChangeLog b/legacy/ecore/ChangeLog
index 44ca038abb..3b83b31b38 100644
--- a/legacy/ecore/ChangeLog
+++ b/legacy/ecore/ChangeLog
@@ -19,3 +19,7 @@
 2011-02-01 Mike McCormack
 
         * Remove SIGRT from ecore's signals since it's unused and broken
+
+2011-02-10 Mike Blumenkrantz
+
+        * added some more possibly useless safety checks to ecore_con_ares
diff --git a/legacy/ecore/src/lib/ecore_con/ecore_con_ares.c b/legacy/ecore/src/lib/ecore_con/ecore_con_ares.c
index 9f395a4522..62e9d0c58b 100644
--- a/legacy/ecore/src/lib/ecore_con/ecore_con_ares.c
+++ b/legacy/ecore/src/lib/ecore_con/ecore_con_ares.c
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ _ecore_con_info_ares_nameinfo(Ecore_Con_CAres *arg,
         else
           *arg->result->service = '\0';
 
-        arg->done_cb(arg->data, arg->result);
+        if (arg->data) arg->done_cb(arg->data, arg->result);
         break;
 
       case ARES_ENOTIMP:
@@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ _ecore_con_info_ares_nameinfo(Ecore_Con_CAres *arg,
       case ARES_ENOMEM:
       case ARES_EDESTRUCTION:
       case ARES_EBADFLAGS:
-        arg->done_cb(arg->data, NULL);
+        if (arg->data) arg->done_cb(arg->data, NULL);
         break;
      }