2 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a58c4cec..d25f8b3d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
 
 1.4.12 or 1.5 ??
         Added ./check_nt -v INSTANCES to count number of instances (Alessandro Ren)
-        check_tcp now returns UNKNOWN with invalid hostname
         New check_icmp -s option to specify the source IP address
         check_dns now sorts addresses for testing results for more than one returned IP (Matthias Urlichs)
         Fix segfault in check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp. (Bug #1862300)
diff --git a/plugins/check_tcp.c b/plugins/check_tcp.c
index 7e470096..e502c0d1 100644
--- a/plugins/check_tcp.c
+++ b/plugins/check_tcp.c
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ process_arguments (int argc, char **argv)
         if (server_address == NULL)
                 usage4 (_("You must provide a server address"));
         else if (server_address[0] != '/' && is_host (server_address) == FALSE)
-                die (STATE_UNKNOWN, "%s %s - %s: %s\n", SERVICE, state_text(STATE_UNKNOWN), _("Invalid hostname, address or socket"), server_address);
+                die (STATE_CRITICAL, "%s %s - %s: %s\n", SERVICE, state_text(STATE_CRITICAL), _("Invalid hostname, address or socket"), server_address);
 
         return TRUE;
 }