diff --git a/bigbluebutton-config/bin/bbb-conf b/bigbluebutton-config/bin/bbb-conf
index e819476cde4a5fcde251708f947c19ad3810bcea..442d044b42d58fd1eea63d5f930319424e3272d6 100755
--- a/bigbluebutton-config/bin/bbb-conf
+++ b/bigbluebutton-config/bin/bbb-conf
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ fi
 if LANG=c ifconfig | grep -q 'venet0:0'; then
     IP=$(ifconfig | grep -v '127.0.0.1' | grep -E "[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*" | tail -1 | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print $1}')
 else
-    IP=$(ifconfig $(route | grep ^default | sed "s/.* //") | awk '/inet /{ print $2}' | cut -d: -f2)
+    IP=$(ifconfig $(route | grep ^default | head -1 | sed "s/.* //") | awk '/inet /{ print $2}' | cut -d: -f2)
 fi
 
 if [ -z "$IP" ]; then