--- a/src/core/ngx_cycle.c
+++ b/src/core/ngx_cycle.c
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ ngx_init_cycle(ngx_cycle_t *old_cycle)
     ngx_listening_t     *ls, *nls;
     ngx_core_conf_t     *ccf, *old_ccf;
     ngx_core_module_t   *module;
+    char                 hostname[NGX_MAXHOSTNAMELEN];
 
     log = old_cycle->log;
 
@@ -170,6 +171,26 @@ ngx_init_cycle(ngx_cycle_t *old_cycle)
     }
 
 
+    if (gethostname(hostname, NGX_MAXHOSTNAMELEN) == -1) {
+        ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_EMERG, log, ngx_errno, "gethostname() failed");
+        ngx_destroy_pool(pool);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    /* on Linux gethostname() silently truncates name that does not fit */
+
+    hostname[NGX_MAXHOSTNAMELEN - 1] = '\0';
+    cycle->hostname.len = ngx_strlen(hostname);
+
+    cycle->hostname.data = ngx_palloc(pool, cycle->hostname.len);
+    if (cycle->hostname.data == NULL) {
+        ngx_destroy_pool(pool);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    ngx_memcpy(cycle->hostname.data, hostname, cycle->hostname.len);
+
+
     for (i = 0; ngx_modules[i]; i++) {
         if (ngx_modules[i]->type != NGX_CORE_MODULE) {
             continue;