diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 317d1f89d21..4ffb7f92db5 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ Release 2.0.3-alpha - Unreleased
 
     HADOOP-8889. Upgrade to Surefire 2.12.3 (todd)
 
+    HADOOP-8804. Improve Web UIs when the wildcard address is used.
+    (Senthil Kumar via eli)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-8866. SampleQuantiles#query is O(N^2) instead of O(N). (Andrew Wang
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/StringUtils.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/StringUtils.java
index 67a8f82d938..09c17ef932f 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/StringUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/StringUtils.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.StringTokenizer;
 
+import com.google.common.net.InetAddresses;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
@@ -77,6 +78,9 @@ public class StringUtils {
    * @return the hostname to the first dot
    */
   public static String simpleHostname(String fullHostname) {
+    if (InetAddresses.isInetAddress(fullHostname)) {
+      return fullHostname;
+    }
     int offset = fullHostname.indexOf('.');
     if (offset != -1) {
       return fullHostname.substring(0, offset);
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/TestStringUtils.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/TestStringUtils.java
index fc90984608f..d07afcc5f0a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/TestStringUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/TestStringUtils.java
@@ -281,6 +281,19 @@ public class TestStringUtils extends UnitTestcaseTimeLimit {
     }
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testSimpleHostName() {
+    assertEquals("Should return hostname when FQDN is specified",
+            "hadoop01",
+            StringUtils.simpleHostname("hadoop01.domain.com"));
+    assertEquals("Should return hostname when only hostname is specified",
+            "hadoop01",
+            StringUtils.simpleHostname("hadoop01"));
+    assertEquals("Should not truncate when IP address is passed",
+            "10.10.5.68",
+            StringUtils.simpleHostname("10.10.5.68"));
+  }
+
   // Benchmark for StringUtils split
   public static void main(String []args) {
     final String TO_SPLIT = "foo,bar,baz,blah,blah";