diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 0f1ed9a5ef3..5050bd7e022 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 jetty-9.3.23-SNAPSHOT
 
+jetty-9.2.24.v20180105 - 05 January 2018
+ + 2065 Backport #347 to Jetty 9.2.x
+
 jetty-9.2.23.v20171218 - 18 December 2017
  + 1556 Remove a timing channel in Password matching
  + 1685 Update ALPN support for Java 8u141
diff --git a/jetty-http-spi/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/http/spi/JettyHttpServerProvider.java b/jetty-http-spi/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/http/spi/JettyHttpServerProvider.java
index 2232bab091e..82575efa6c2 100644
--- a/jetty-http-spi/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/http/spi/JettyHttpServerProvider.java
+++ b/jetty-http-spi/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/http/spi/JettyHttpServerProvider.java
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jetty.http.spi;
 
+import com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer;
+import com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpsServer;
+import com.sun.net.httpserver.spi.HttpServerProvider;
+
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
 
@@ -29,10 +33,6 @@ import org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ThreadPool;
 
-import com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer;
-import com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpsServer;
-import com.sun.net.httpserver.spi.HttpServerProvider;
-
 /**
  * Jetty implementation of <a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/jre/api/net/httpserver/spec/index.html">Java HTTP Server SPI</a>
  */
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ public class JettyHttpServerProvider extends HttpServerProvider
         }
 
         JettyHttpServer jettyHttpServer = new JettyHttpServer(server, shared);
-        jettyHttpServer.bind(addr, backlog);
+        if (addr != null)
+           jettyHttpServer.bind(addr, backlog);
         return jettyHttpServer;
     }