diff --git a/builder/evaluator.go b/builder/evaluator.go
index bc4e2b5bd3..4ce9b76e2b 100644
--- a/builder/evaluator.go
+++ b/builder/evaluator.go
@@ -45,21 +45,20 @@ var evaluateTable map[string]func(*Builder, []string, map[string]bool) error
 
 func init() {
 	evaluateTable = map[string]func(*Builder, []string, map[string]bool) error{
-		"env":            env,
-		"maintainer":     maintainer,
-		"add":            add,
-		"copy":           dispatchCopy, // copy() is a go builtin
-		"from":           from,
-		"onbuild":        onbuild,
-		"workdir":        workdir,
-		"docker-version": nullDispatch, // we don't care about docker-version
-		"run":            run,
-		"cmd":            cmd,
-		"entrypoint":     entrypoint,
-		"expose":         expose,
-		"volume":         volume,
-		"user":           user,
-		"insert":         insert,
+		"env":        env,
+		"maintainer": maintainer,
+		"add":        add,
+		"copy":       dispatchCopy, // copy() is a go builtin
+		"from":       from,
+		"onbuild":    onbuild,
+		"workdir":    workdir,
+		"run":        run,
+		"cmd":        cmd,
+		"entrypoint": entrypoint,
+		"expose":     expose,
+		"volume":     volume,
+		"user":       user,
+		"insert":     insert,
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/builder/parser/parser.go b/builder/parser/parser.go
index 0464ec17b0..70e916e70a 100644
--- a/builder/parser/parser.go
+++ b/builder/parser/parser.go
@@ -43,21 +43,20 @@ func init() {
 	// functions. Errors are propogated up by Parse() and the resulting AST can
 	// be incorporated directly into the existing AST as a next.
 	dispatch = map[string]func(string) (*Node, map[string]bool, error){
-		"user":           parseString,
-		"onbuild":        parseSubCommand,
-		"workdir":        parseString,
-		"env":            parseEnv,
-		"maintainer":     parseString,
-		"docker-version": parseString,
-		"from":           parseString,
-		"add":            parseStringsWhitespaceDelimited,
-		"copy":           parseStringsWhitespaceDelimited,
-		"run":            parseMaybeJSON,
-		"cmd":            parseMaybeJSON,
-		"entrypoint":     parseMaybeJSON,
-		"expose":         parseStringsWhitespaceDelimited,
-		"volume":         parseMaybeJSONToList,
-		"insert":         parseIgnore,
+		"user":       parseString,
+		"onbuild":    parseSubCommand,
+		"workdir":    parseString,
+		"env":        parseEnv,
+		"maintainer": parseString,
+		"from":       parseString,
+		"add":        parseStringsWhitespaceDelimited,
+		"copy":       parseStringsWhitespaceDelimited,
+		"run":        parseMaybeJSON,
+		"cmd":        parseMaybeJSON,
+		"entrypoint": parseMaybeJSON,
+		"expose":     parseStringsWhitespaceDelimited,
+		"volume":     parseMaybeJSONToList,
+		"insert":     parseIgnore,
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/builder/parser/testfiles/docker/result b/builder/parser/testfiles/docker/result
index b1c9b2994f..915e2ef17b 100644
--- a/builder/parser/testfiles/docker/result
+++ b/builder/parser/testfiles/docker/result
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-(docker-version "0.6.1")
+(docker-version)
 (from "ubuntu:14.04")
 (maintainer "Tianon Gravi <admwiggin@gmail.com> (@tianon)")
 (run "apt-get update && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -yq 	apt-utils 	aufs-tools 	automake 	btrfs-tools 	build-essential 	curl 	dpkg-sig 	git 	iptables 	libapparmor-dev 	libcap-dev 	libsqlite3-dev 	lxc=1.0* 	mercurial 	pandoc 	parallel 	reprepro 	ruby1.9.1 	ruby1.9.1-dev 	s3cmd=1.1.0* 	--no-install-recommends")
diff --git a/builder/parser/utils.go b/builder/parser/utils.go
index 53cda5808b..f8049be9d4 100644
--- a/builder/parser/utils.go
+++ b/builder/parser/utils.go
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 package parser
 
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"strings"
-)
+import "strings"
 
 // QuoteString walks characters (after trimming), escapes any quotes and
 // escapes, then wraps the whole thing in quotes. Very useful for generating
@@ -52,11 +49,14 @@ func (node *Node) Dump() string {
 // performs the dispatch based on the two primal strings, cmd and args. Please
 // look at the dispatch table in parser.go to see how these dispatchers work.
 func fullDispatch(cmd, args string) (*Node, map[string]bool, error) {
-	if _, ok := dispatch[cmd]; !ok {
-		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("'%s' is not a valid dockerfile command", cmd)
+	fn := dispatch[cmd]
+
+	// Ignore invalid Dockerfile instructions
+	if fn == nil {
+		fn = parseIgnore
 	}
 
-	sexp, attrs, err := dispatch[cmd](args)
+	sexp, attrs, err := fn(args)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, nil, err
 	}
diff --git a/integration-cli/docker_cli_build_test.go b/integration-cli/docker_cli_build_test.go
index 21ff676c2e..8ae40f730a 100644
--- a/integration-cli/docker_cli_build_test.go
+++ b/integration-cli/docker_cli_build_test.go
@@ -2447,3 +2447,15 @@ func TestBuildCmdJSONNoShDashC(t *testing.T) {
 
 	logDone("build - cmd should not have /bin/sh -c for json")
 }
+
+func TestBuildIgnoreInvalidInstruction(t *testing.T) {
+	name := "testbuildignoreinvalidinstruction"
+	defer deleteImages(name)
+
+	out, _, err := buildImageWithOut(name, "FROM busybox\nfoo bar", true)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err, out)
+	}
+
+	logDone("build - ignore invalid Dockerfile instruction")
+}