diff --git a/libs/sofia-sip/.update b/libs/sofia-sip/.update
index 5dc89e0a24..bd0253e8c0 100644
--- a/libs/sofia-sip/.update
+++ b/libs/sofia-sip/.update
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Tue Oct 22 16:25:25 CDT 2013
+Fri Oct 25 23:51:29 CDT 2013
diff --git a/libs/sofia-sip/libsofia-sip-ua/tport/tport.c b/libs/sofia-sip/libsofia-sip-ua/tport/tport.c
index aa257f79f8..62193e9135 100644
--- a/libs/sofia-sip/libsofia-sip-ua/tport/tport.c
+++ b/libs/sofia-sip/libsofia-sip-ua/tport/tport.c
@@ -2094,6 +2094,10 @@ void tport_close(tport_t *self)
   SU_DEBUG_5(("%s(%p): " TPN_FORMAT "\n",
 	      __func__, (void *)self, TPN_ARGS(self->tp_name)));
 
+  if (self->tp_refs == -1) {
+	  self->tp_refs = 0;
+  }
+
   if (self->tp_closed || !tport_is_secondary(self))
     return;