diff -Naur cyrus-sasl-2.1.25/lib/client.c cyrus-sasl-2.1.25.new/lib/client.c
--- cyrus-sasl-2.1.25/lib/client.c	2011-09-02 05:58:01.000000000 -0700
+++ cyrus-sasl-2.1.25.new/lib/client.c	2014-04-29 10:52:17.000000000 -0700
@@ -503,8 +503,8 @@
   
   /* get the clientFQDN (serverFQDN was set in _sasl_conn_init) */
   memset(name, 0, sizeof(name));
-  if (get_fqhostname (name, MAXHOSTNAMELEN, 0) != 0) {
-      return (SASL_FAIL);
+  if (get_fqhostname (name, MAXHOSTNAMELEN, 1) != 0) {
+      gethostname(name, MAXHOSTNAMELEN);
   }
 
   result = _sasl_strdup(name, &conn->clientFQDN, NULL);