diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 84c28fe4a0..20a77a93dd 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -22,9 +22,12 @@
 			add corresponding option to view statement.
 
  245.	[bug]		If an uncompressed name will take more than 255
-			characters and the buffer is sufficiently long,
+			bytes and the buffer is sufficiently long,
 			dns_name_fromwire should return DNS_R_FORMERR,
-			not ISC_R_NOSPACE.
+			not ISC_R_NOSPACE.  This bug caused cause the
+			server to catch an assertion failure when it
+			received a query for a name longer than 255
+			bytes.
 
  244.	[bug]		empty named.conf file and empty options statement are
 			now parsed properly.