[Xymon] MACHINEDOTS setting not working

I've got a client Ubuntu machine setup with the MACHINEDOTS setting in it's cfg file but it's stats are getting ignored by the server. The only way I can get the stats to show up on the server side for this client is to add the CLIENT:hostname setting in the server's hosts.cfg file. Any idea why the MACHINEDOTS way of doing it doesn't seem to work?

Thank you.

Kris Springer