diff -Naur monit-5.4/src/util.c monit-edited/src/util.c
--- monit-5.4/src/util.c	2012-05-06 02:40:45.000000000 -0700
+++ monit-edited/src/util.c	2016-03-14 11:48:27.047055577 -0700
@@ -1886,9 +1886,7 @@
 
 
 int Util_getfqdnhostname(char *buf, unsigned len) {
-        int status;
         char hostname[STRLEN];
-        struct addrinfo hints, *info = NULL;
         
 	// Set the base hostname
         if (gethostname(hostname, sizeof(hostname))) {
@@ -1896,24 +1894,6 @@
                 return -1;
         }
 	snprintf(buf, len, "%s", hostname);
-        
-	// Try to look for FQDN hostname
-        memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
-        hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;
-        hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
-        hints.ai_flags = AI_CANONNAME;
-        if ((status = getaddrinfo(hostname, NULL, &hints, &info))) {
-                LogError("%s: Cannot translate '%s' to FQDN name -- %s\n", prog, hostname, status == EAI_SYSTEM ? STRERROR : gai_strerror(status));
-        } else {
-		for (struct addrinfo *result = info; result; result = result->ai_next) {
-			if (Str_startsWith(result->ai_canonname, hostname)) {
-	                	snprintf(buf, len, "%s", result->ai_canonname);
-				break;
-			}
-		}
-	}
-        if (info)
-                freeaddrinfo(info);
         return 0;
 }