1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/tftp.c b/tftp.c
index 466851c1b..bb75c88ec 100644
--- a/tftp.c
+++ b/tftp.c
@@ -390,15 +390,10 @@ int tftp_main(int argc, char **argv)
                 s = xstrdup(serverstr);
                 s[cp - serverstr] = '\0';
 
-                if ((host = gethostbyname(s))) {
-                        bad = 0;
-                }
+                host = xgethostbyname(s);
 
                 free(s);
         }
-        if (bad) {
-                error_msg_and_die("bad \"server:file\" combination");
-        }
 
         if (BB_TFTP_DEBUG) {
                 printf("using server \"%s\", serverfile \"%s\","