diff -Nur e-smith-hosts-2.4.0.old8723/root/etc/e-smith/db/hosts/migrate/30sanitise_host_comment e-smith-hosts-2.4.0.bz8723/root/etc/e-smith/db/hosts/migrate/30sanitise_host_comment
--- e-smith-hosts-2.4.0.old8723/root/etc/e-smith/db/hosts/migrate/30sanitise_host_comment	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ e-smith-hosts-2.4.0.bz8723/root/etc/e-smith/db/hosts/migrate/30sanitise_host_comment	2015-01-22 08:30:50.193365257 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+      # Purge quoting chars in comments to fix bug 8723 & bug 8806
+      foreach my $host ($DB->get_all)
+      {
+          my $comment = $host->prop('Comment');
+          next unless $comment;
+          $comment =~ s/[^a-zA-Z0-9\ \_\-\,\.]+//g;
+          $host->merge_props(Comment => $comment);
+      }
+}
diff -Nur e-smith-hosts-2.4.0.old8723/root/etc/e-smith/locale/en-us/etc/e-smith/web/functions/hostentries e-smith-hosts-2.4.0.bz8723/root/etc/e-smith/locale/en-us/etc/e-smith/web/functions/hostentries
--- e-smith-hosts-2.4.0.old8723/root/etc/e-smith/locale/en-us/etc/e-smith/web/functions/hostentries	2015-01-18 11:25:40.356221775 +0100
+++ e-smith-hosts-2.4.0.bz8723/root/etc/e-smith/locale/en-us/etc/e-smith/web/functions/hostentries	2015-01-18 12:57:12.694843190 +0100
@@ -271,4 +271,18 @@
         <base>MUST_BE_VALID_HOSTNAME_OR_IP</base>
         <trans>Must be a valid hostname or IP number</trans>
     </entry>
+  <entry>
+   <base>HOSTNAME_COMMENT_ERROR</base>
+    <trans>
+    Error: unexpected characters in the comment of "{$hostname}.{$domain}". 
+    The comment must contain only letters, spaces, numbers, dots, commas, undescores, hyphens and must start with a letter or number. 
+    </trans>
+  </entry>
+    <entry>
+      <base>HOSTNAME_VALIDATOR_ERROR</base>
+    <trans>
+    Error: unexpected characters in host name: "{$hostname}.{$domain}". The host name should contain only 
+    letters, numbers, and hyphens and must start with a letter or a number.
+     </trans>
+  </entry>
 </lexicon>
diff -Nur e-smith-hosts-2.4.0.old8723/root/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/esmith/FormMagick/Panel/hostentries.pm e-smith-hosts-2.4.0.bz8723/root/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/esmith/FormMagick/Panel/hostentries.pm
--- e-smith-hosts-2.4.0.old8723/root/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/esmith/FormMagick/Panel/hostentries.pm	2015-01-18 11:25:40.356221775 +0100
+++ e-smith-hosts-2.4.0.bz8723/root/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/esmith/FormMagick/Panel/hostentries.pm	2015-01-18 12:56:12.236214717 +0100
@@ -420,11 +420,17 @@
     my $hostname = lc $q->param('name');
     my $domain = lc $q->param('domain');
     my $fqdn = "$hostname.$domain";
+    my $comment = $q->param('comment');
     $self->cgi->param(-name=>'name', -value=>$hostname);
 
     unless ( $hostname =~ /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$/ )
     {
-        return $self->error('HOSTNAME_DESCRIPTION');
+        return $self->error('HOSTNAME_VALIDATOR_ERROR');
+    }
+
+    unless ( $comment =~ /^([a-zA-Z0-9][\_\.\-,A-Za-z0-9\s]*)$/ )
+    {
+        return $self->error('HOSTNAME_COMMENT_ERROR');
     }
     # Look for duplicate hosts.
     my $hostrec = undef;