diff --git a/src/assay.cc b/src/assay.cc
index fb6255c7..4d04a3f7 100644
--- a/src/assay.cc
+++ b/src/assay.cc
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ int Assay::processConnection(const char *client, int cPort, const char *server,
     debug(4, "Transaction context created (blah blah)");
     debug(4, "Starting phase CONNECTION. (SecRules 0)");
 
+    this->store_variable("REMOTE_HOST", m_serverIpAddress);
     this->store_variable("REMOTE_ADDR", m_clientIpAddress);
     this->m_rules->evaluate(ModSecurity::ConnectionPhase, this);
     return true;
diff --git a/src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll b/src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll
index 12fd7137..786153b0 100755
--- a/src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll
+++ b/src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ OPERATORNOARG	(?i:@detectSQLi|@detectXSS|@geoLookup|@validateUrlEncoding|@valida
 
 TRANSFORMATION  t:(lowercase|urlDecodeUni|urlDecode|none|compressWhitespace|removeWhitespace|replaceNulls|removeNulls|htmlEntityDecode|jsDecode|cssDecode|trim)
 
-VARIABLE          (?i:MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR|PATH_INFO|MULTIPART_NAME|MULTIPART_FILENAME|MULTIPART_CRLF_LF_LINES|MATCHED_VAR_NAME|MATCHED_VARS_NAMES|MATCHED_VAR|MATCHED_VARS|INBOUND_DATA_ERROR|OUTBOUND_DATA_ERROR|FULL_REQUEST|FILES|AUTH_TYPE|ARGS_NAMES|ARGS|QUERY_STRING|REMOTE_ADDR|REQUEST_BASENAME|REQUEST_BODY|REQUEST_COOKIES_NAMES|REQUEST_COOKIES|REQUEST_FILENAME|REQUEST_HEADERS_NAMES|REQUEST_HEADERS|REQUEST_METHOD|REQUEST_PROTOCOL|REQUEST_URI|RESPONSE_BODY|RESPONSE_CONTENT_LENGTH|RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE|RESPONSE_HEADERS_NAMES|RESPONSE_HEADERS|RESPONSE_PROTOCOL|RESPONSE_STATUS|TX|GEO)
+VARIABLE          (?i:REMOTE_HOST|MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR|PATH_INFO|MULTIPART_NAME|MULTIPART_FILENAME|MULTIPART_CRLF_LF_LINES|MATCHED_VAR_NAME|MATCHED_VARS_NAMES|MATCHED_VAR|MATCHED_VARS|INBOUND_DATA_ERROR|OUTBOUND_DATA_ERROR|FULL_REQUEST|FILES|AUTH_TYPE|ARGS_NAMES|ARGS|QUERY_STRING|REMOTE_ADDR|REQUEST_BASENAME|REQUEST_BODY|REQUEST_COOKIES_NAMES|REQUEST_COOKIES|REQUEST_FILENAME|REQUEST_HEADERS_NAMES|REQUEST_HEADERS|REQUEST_METHOD|REQUEST_PROTOCOL|REQUEST_URI|RESPONSE_BODY|RESPONSE_CONTENT_LENGTH|RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE|RESPONSE_HEADERS_NAMES|RESPONSE_HEADERS|RESPONSE_PROTOCOL|RESPONSE_STATUS|TX|GEO)
 RUN_TIME_VAR_DUR  (?i:DURATION)
 RUN_TIME_VAR_ENV  (?i:ENV)
 RUN_TIME_VAR_BLD  (?i:MODSEC_BUILD)
diff --git a/test/test-cases/regression/variable-REMOTE_HOST.json b/test/test-cases/regression/variable-REMOTE_HOST.json
index 3c5277b7..6145bf8a 100644
--- a/test/test-cases/regression/variable-REMOTE_HOST.json
+++ b/test/test-cases/regression/variable-REMOTE_HOST.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
       "port":123
     },
     "server":{
-      "ip":"200.249.12.31",
+      "ip":"200.249.12.11",
       "port":80
     },
     "request":{
@@ -33,7 +33,50 @@
       ]
     },
     "expected":{
-      "debug_log":"key2=v\\%20a\\%20l\\%20u\\%20e\\%202\" \\(Variable: REMOTE_HOST\\)"
+      "debug_log":"Target value: \"200.249.12.11\" \\(Variable: REMOTE_HOST\\)"
+    },
+    "rules":[
+      "SecRuleEngine On",
+      "SecDebugLog \/tmp\/modsec_debug.log",
+      "SecDebugLogLevel 9",
+      "SecRule REMOTE_HOST \"@contains test \" \"phase:3,pass,t:trim\""
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "enabled":1,
+    "version_min":300000,
+    "title":"Testing Variables :: REMOTE_HOST",
+    "client":{
+      "ip":"200.249.12.31",
+      "port":123
+    },
+    "server":{
+      "ip":"::1",
+      "port":80
+    },
+    "request":{
+      "headers":{
+        "Host":"localhost",
+        "User-Agent":"curl/7.38.0",
+        "Accept":"*/*",
+        "Content-Length":"27",
+        "Content-Type":"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
+      },
+      "uri":"/one/two/three?key1=value1&key2=v%20a%20l%20u%20e%202",
+      "protocol":"GET"
+    },
+    "response":{
+      "headers":{
+        "Date":"Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:02:41 GMT",
+        "Last-Modified":"Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:33:37 GMT",
+        "Content-Type":"text/html"
+      },
+      "body":[
+        "no need."
+      ]
+    },
+    "expected":{
+      "debug_log":"Target value: \"::1\" \\(Variable: REMOTE_HOST\\)"
     },
     "rules":[
       "SecRuleEngine On",