diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b80c6d508..daa04ed8d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2012-03-06 Rolf Bensch <rolf at bensch hyphen online dot de>
+	* backend/pixma_bjnp.c: Replace index() with strchr(). Bug #313563.
+
 2012-02-29 Rolf Bensch <rolf at bensch hyphen online dot de>
 	* backend/pixma.[ch], backend/pixma_common.c, 
 	backend/pixma_sane_options.[ch]: New device specific option 
diff --git a/backend/pixma_bjnp.c b/backend/pixma_bjnp.c
index a97aad269..6e045d0cd 100644
--- a/backend/pixma_bjnp.c
+++ b/backend/pixma_bjnp.c
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ truncate_hostname (char *hostname, char *short_hostname)
     {
       /* this is a hostname, not an ip-address, so remove domain part of the name */
 
-      if ((dot = index (short_hostname, '.')) != NULL)
+      if ((dot = strchr (short_hostname, '.')) != NULL)
 	*dot = '\0';
     }
   return short_hostname;