diff --git a/reg-tests/server/b00000.vtc b/reg-tests/server/b00000.vtc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5fb5c62fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reg-tests/server/b00000.vtc
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+varnishtest "Set server FQDN via CLI crash"
+
+feature ignore_unknown_macro
+
+# Do nothing. Is there only to create s1_* macros
+server s1 {
+} -start
+
+haproxy h1 -conf {
+    defaults
+        mode http
+        timeout connect 1s
+        timeout client  1s
+        timeout server  1s
+
+    frontend myfrontend
+        bind "fd@${my_fe}"
+        default_backend test
+
+    backend test
+        server www1 ${s1_addr}:${s1_port}
+} -start
+
+haproxy h1 -cli {
+    send "set server test/www1 fqdn foo.fqdn"
+    expect ~ "could not update test/www1 FQDN by 'stats socket command'"
+    send "show servers state test"
+    expect ~ "test 1 www1 ${s1_addr} .* - ${s1_port}"
+} -wait
diff --git a/src/server.c b/src/server.c
index 766f5ded1..e6944c2e1 100644
--- a/src/server.c
+++ b/src/server.c
@@ -3980,6 +3980,10 @@ int srv_set_fqdn(struct server *srv, const char *hostname, int dns_locked)
 	char                  *hostname_dn;
 	int                    hostname_len, hostname_dn_len;
 
+	/* Note that the server lock is already held. */
+	if (!srv->resolvers)
+		return -1;
+
 	if (!dns_locked)
 		HA_SPIN_LOCK(DNS_LOCK, &srv->resolvers->lock);
 	/* run time DNS resolution was not active for this server