diff -urN opendnssec-1.3.18.orig/plugins/eppclient/src/epp.c opendnssec-1.3.18/plugins/eppclient/src/epp.c
--- opendnssec-1.3.18.orig/plugins/eppclient/src/epp.c	2014-07-21 11:16:10.000000000 +0200
+++ opendnssec-1.3.18/plugins/eppclient/src/epp.c	2016-03-23 22:25:18.679354984 +0100
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY, 1L);
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1L);
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 1L);
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2L);
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USE_SSL, CURLUSESSL_ALL);
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, curlerr);
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1L);
