diff --git a/changes/bug26892 b/changes/bug26892
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6fc8a032042fb9ba0c30f9be8abc90ff3e73d805
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug26892
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+  o Minor bugfixes (logging):
+    - As a precaution, do an early return from
+      log_addr_has_changed() if Tor is running as client. Also,
+      log a stack trace for debugging as this function should only
+      be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes bug 26892;
+      bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
diff --git a/src/feature/relay/router.c b/src/feature/relay/router.c
index 973d3e1100857ddf25d146e88ac69b39fcf6bfd4..0cc4887232e3de37f9539db95bc7762b76507caf 100644
--- a/src/feature/relay/router.c
+++ b/src/feature/relay/router.c
@@ -2686,6 +2686,9 @@ log_addr_has_changed(int severity,
   char addrbuf_prev[TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN];
   char addrbuf_cur[TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN];
 
+  if (BUG(!server_mode(get_options())))
+    return;
+
   if (tor_addr_to_str(addrbuf_prev, prev, sizeof(addrbuf_prev), 1) == NULL)
     strlcpy(addrbuf_prev, "???", TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN);
   if (tor_addr_to_str(addrbuf_cur, cur, sizeof(addrbuf_cur), 1) == NULL)