1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/sysdep.c b/src/sysdep.c
index 20d60400dcb..27e90349cb6 100644
--- a/src/sysdep.c
+++ b/src/sysdep.c
@@ -2433,7 +2433,9 @@ init_system_name ()
                 /* We still don't have a fully qualified domain name.
                    Try to find one in the list of alternate names */
                 char **alias = hp->h_aliases;
-                while (*alias && !index (*alias, '.'))
+                while (*alias
+                       && (!index (*alias, '.')
+                           || !strcmp (*alias, "localhost.localdomain")))
                   alias++;
                 if (*alias)
                   fqdn = *alias;