diff --git a/src/test/include.am b/src/test/include.am
index 81b089b8f7dfbd45c90a0f40b46f605302522c85..cb94490302cc707a5e638f43a38112d52ee53df1 100644
--- a/src/test/include.am
+++ b/src/test/include.am
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ endif
 
 if USEPYTHON
 TESTSCRIPTS += src/test/test_ntor.sh src/test/test_hs_ntor.sh src/test/test_bt.sh
+TESTSCRIPTS += src/test/test_rebind.sh
 endif
 
 TESTS += src/test/test src/test/test-slow src/test/test-memwipe \
@@ -342,6 +343,8 @@ EXTRA_DIST += \
 	src/test/hs_indexes.py \
 	src/test/fuzz_static_testcases.sh \
 	src/test/slownacl_curve25519.py \
+	src/test/test_rebind.sh \
+	src/test/test_rebind.py \
 	src/test/zero_length_keys.sh \
 	src/test/rust_supp.txt \
 	src/test/test_keygen.sh \
diff --git a/src/test/test_rebind.py b/src/test/test_rebind.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..582e496012aeaeb4300c1c1af230eaa12cc790a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/test_rebind.py
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+import sys
+import subprocess
+import socket
+import os
+import time
+
+def try_connecting_to_socksport():
+    socks_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+    if socks_socket.connect_ex(('127.0.0.1', 9052)):
+        tor_process.terminate()
+        print 'FAIL'
+        sys.exit('Cannot connect to SOCKSPort')
+    socks_socket.close()
+
+def wait_for_log(s):
+    while True:
+        l = tor_process.stdout.readline()
+        if s in l:
+            return
+
+if not os.path.exists(sys.argv[1]):
+    sys.exit('ERROR: cannot find tor at %s' % sys.argv[1])
+
+tor_path = sys.argv[1]
+
+tor_process = subprocess.Popen([tor_path,
+                               '-ControlPort', '127.0.0.1:9053', 
+                               '-SOCKSPort', '127.0.0.1:9052',
+                               '-FetchServerDescriptors', '0'],
+                               stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                               stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+
+if tor_process == None:
+    sys.exit('ERROR: running tor failed')
+
+if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+     sys.exit('Usage: %s <path-to-tor>' % sys.argv[0])
+
+wait_for_log('Opened Control listener on')
+
+try_connecting_to_socksport()
+
+control_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+if control_socket.connect_ex(('127.0.0.1', 9053)):
+    tor_process.terminate()
+    print 'FAIL'
+    sys.exit('Cannot connect to ControlPort')
+
+control_socket.sendall('AUTHENTICATE \r\n')
+control_socket.sendall('SETCONF SOCKSPort=0.0.0.0:9052\r\n')
+wait_for_log('Opened Socks listener')
+
+try_connecting_to_socksport()
+
+control_socket.sendall('SETCONF SOCKSPort=127.0.0.1:9052\r\n')
+wait_for_log('Opened Socks listener')
+
+try_connecting_to_socksport()
+
+control_socket.sendall('SIGNAL HALT\r\n')
+
+time.sleep(0.1)
+print 'OK'
+tor_process.terminate()
diff --git a/src/test/test_rebind.sh b/src/test/test_rebind.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..47f38afc457bbfe06e0fc0e493d4793d43b47b80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/test_rebind.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+exitcode=0
+
+"${PYTHON:-python}" "${abs_top_srcdir:-.}/src/test/test_rebind.py" "${TESTING_TOR_BINARY}" || exitcode=1
+
+exit ${exitcode}