diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index d343a5ca9..a0c665050 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1919,3 +1919,5 @@ seen. gmtime warning still there
 - Removed some leftover +I code
 - Fixed a bug in /who where +s was case sensitive. Reported by jollino (#0000736)
 - Removed some debugging messages
+- Fixed an alias bug reported by darko`` where alias::format::type of "normal" produced
+  an error.
diff --git a/src/s_conf.c b/src/s_conf.c
index d817540be..8c516e211 100644
--- a/src/s_conf.c
+++ b/src/s_conf.c
@@ -5538,9 +5538,9 @@ int _test_alias(ConfigFile *conf, ConfigEntry *ce) {
 				{
 					if (!strcmp(cepp->ce_vardata, "services"))
 						;
-					else if (!strcmp(cep->ce_vardata, "stats"))
+					else if (!strcmp(cepp->ce_vardata, "stats"))
 						;
-					else if (!strcmp(cep->ce_vardata, "normal"))
+					else if (!strcmp(cepp->ce_vardata, "normal"))
 						;
 					else {
 						config_status("%s:%i: unknown alias type",