diff --git a/src/resolvers.c b/src/resolvers.c
index 73968917c..ac6b23dd4 100644
--- a/src/resolvers.c
+++ b/src/resolvers.c
@@ -2528,6 +2528,13 @@ static int resolvers_finalize_config(void)
 	for (px = proxies_list; px; px = px->next) {
 		struct server *srv;
 
+		if (px->flags & PR_FL_DISABLED) {
+			/* must not run and will not work anyway since
+			 * nothing in the proxy is initialized.
+			 */
+			continue;
+		}
+
 		for (srv = px->srv; srv; srv = srv->next) {
 			struct resolvers *resolvers;