diff --git a/bin/tests/system/statistics/tests.sh b/bin/tests/system/statistics/tests.sh
index 1f552ca71f..ce9d7eab1e 100644
--- a/bin/tests/system/statistics/tests.sh
+++ b/bin/tests/system/statistics/tests.sh
@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ n=`expr $n + 1`
 ret=0
 echo_i "checking that zones return their type ($n)"
 if $FEATURETEST --have-libxml2 && [ -x ${CURL} ] ; then
-    ${CURL} http://10.53.0.1:${EXTRAPORT1}/xml/v3/zones > curl.out.${t} 2>/dev/null || ret=1
-    grep '<zone name="32/1.0.0.127-in-addr.example" rdataclass="IN"><type>master</type>' curl.out.${t} > /dev/null || ret=1
+    ${CURL} http://10.53.0.1:${EXTRAPORT1}/xml/v3/zones > curl.out.${n} 2>/dev/null || ret=1
+    grep '<zone name="32/1.0.0.127-in-addr.example" rdataclass="IN"><type>master</type>' curl.out.${n} > /dev/null || ret=1
 else
     echo_i "skipping test as libxml2 and/or curl was not found"
 fi