diff --git a/django/core/servers/basehttp.py b/django/core/servers/basehttp.py
index 7ce5706c233dc..4bd0e50e53f2d 100644
--- a/django/core/servers/basehttp.py
+++ b/django/core/servers/basehttp.py
@@ -547,10 +547,6 @@ def get_environ(self):
 
         env['PATH_INFO'] = urllib.unquote(path)
         env['QUERY_STRING'] = query
-
-        host = self.address_string()
-        if host != self.client_address[0]:
-            env['REMOTE_HOST'] = host
         env['REMOTE_ADDR'] = self.client_address[0]
 
         if self.headers.typeheader is None: