diff --git a/testssl.sh b/testssl.sh
index c2dd02c..90a5ad0 100755
--- a/testssl.sh
+++ b/testssl.sh
@@ -3499,16 +3499,16 @@ cipher_pref_check() {
      if ! spdy_pre "     SPDY/NPN: "; then       # is NPN/SPDY supported and is this no STARTTLS?
           outln
      else
-          npn_protos=$($OPENSSL s_client -host $NODE -port $PORT $BUGS -nextprotoneg \"\" </dev/null 2>>$ERRFILE | grep -a "^Protocols " | sed -e 's/^Protocols.*server: //' -e 's/,//g')
+          npn_protos=$($OPENSSL s_client $BUGS -nextprotoneg \"\" -connect $NODEIP:$PORT $PROXY $SNI </dev/null 2>>$ERRFILE | grep -a "^Protocols " | sed -e 's/^Protocols.*server: //' -e 's/,//g')
           for p in $npn_protos; do
                order=""
-               $OPENSSL s_client -host $NODE -port $PORT $BUGS -nextprotoneg "$p" $PROXY </dev/null 2>>$ERRFILE >$TMPFILE
+               $OPENSSL s_client $BUGS -nextprotoneg "$p" -connect $NODEIP:$PORT $PROXY $SNI </dev/null 2>>$ERRFILE >$TMPFILE
                cipher=$(awk '/Cipher.*:/ { print $3 }' $TMPFILE)
                printf "    %-10s %s " "$p:" "$cipher"
                tested_cipher="-"$cipher
                order="$cipher"
                while true; do
-                    $OPENSSL s_client -cipher "ALL:$tested_cipher" -host $NODE -port $PORT $BUGS -nextprotoneg "$p" $PROXY </dev/null 2>>$ERRFILE >$TMPFILE
+                    $OPENSSL s_client -cipher "ALL:$tested_cipher" $BUGS -nextprotoneg "$p" -connect $NODEIP:$PORT $PROXY $SNI </dev/null 2>>$ERRFILE >$TMPFILE
                     sclient_connect_successful $? $TMPFILE || break
                     cipher=$(awk '/Cipher.*:/ { print $3 }' $TMPFILE)
                     out "$cipher "