diff --git a/app/vmagent/remotewrite/statconn.go b/app/vmagent/remotewrite/statconn.go
index 7b15f39414..e99a5b15e0 100644
--- a/app/vmagent/remotewrite/statconn.go
+++ b/app/vmagent/remotewrite/statconn.go
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ import (
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics"
 )
 
-func statDial(network, addr string) (conn net.Conn, err error) {
-	network = netutil.GetTCPNetwork()
+func statDial(network_, addr string) (conn net.Conn, err error) {
+	network := netutil.GetTCPNetwork()
 	conn, err = net.DialTimeout(network, addr, 5*time.Second)
 	dialsTotal.Inc()
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/lib/promscrape/statconn.go b/lib/promscrape/statconn.go
index 5635be081c..84e50dfaa8 100644
--- a/lib/promscrape/statconn.go
+++ b/lib/promscrape/statconn.go
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ import (
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics"
 )
 
-func statStdDial(ctx context.Context, network, addr string) (net.Conn, error) {
+func statStdDial(ctx context.Context, network_, addr string) (net.Conn, error) {
 	d := getStdDialer()
-	network = netutil.GetTCPNetwork()
+	network := netutil.GetTCPNetwork()
 	conn, err := d.DialContext(ctx, network, addr)
 	dialsTotal.Inc()
 	if err != nil {