diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 793c2475..d2298696 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ NEWS
   * Fix fastcgi authorization in subdirectories with check-local=disabled; don't split pathinfo for authorizer. (#963)
   * Add possibility to disable methods in mod_compress (#1773)
   * Fix duplicate connection keep-alive/transfer-encoding headers (#960)
+  * Fixed fix for round-robin in mod_proxy (forgot to increment the index) (#1715)
 
 - 1.4.20 - 2008-09-30
 
diff --git a/src/mod_proxy.c b/src/mod_proxy.c
index 832306fe..2f00cc4f 100644
--- a/src/mod_proxy.c
+++ b/src/mod_proxy.c
@@ -1198,7 +1198,8 @@ static handler_t mod_proxy_check_extension(server *srv, connection *con, void *p
 		host = (data_proxy *)extension->value->data[0];
 
 		/* Use last_used_ndx from first host in list */
-		k = ndx = host->last_used_ndx;
+		k = host->last_used_ndx;
+		ndx = k + 1; /* use next host after the last one */
 		if (ndx < 0) ndx = 0;
 
 		/* Search first active host after last_used_ndx */