diff --git a/tokio-xmpp/Cargo.toml b/tokio-xmpp/Cargo.toml
index 421e6c1e728b9407c033fef9e317a2b9053a91fd..d8aeb955e31320999a0b0f0f5a733ee508d55283 100644
--- a/tokio-xmpp/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tokio-xmpp/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ xmpp-parsers = { version = "0.21", path = "../parsers", features = [ "log" ] }
 xso = { version = "0.1", path = "../xso" }
 
 # these are only needed for starttls ServerConnector support
-hickory-resolver = { version = "0.24", optional = true}
+hickory-resolver = { version = "0.25", optional = true}
 idna = { version = "1.0", optional = true}
 native-tls = { version = "0.2", optional = true }
 tokio-native-tls = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
diff --git a/tokio-xmpp/src/connect/dns.rs b/tokio-xmpp/src/connect/dns.rs
index e8d06fb38381b68ffb3ae0488c653a648491c46f..c1cd796babcacb82d453b9ffc7e90d352c57c11e 100644
--- a/tokio-xmpp/src/connect/dns.rs
+++ b/tokio-xmpp/src/connect/dns.rs
@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ use core::{fmt, net::SocketAddr};
 #[cfg(feature = "dns")]
 use futures::{future::select_ok, FutureExt};
 #[cfg(feature = "dns")]
-use hickory_resolver::{
-    config::LookupIpStrategy, name_server::TokioConnectionProvider, IntoName, TokioAsyncResolver,
-};
+use hickory_resolver::{config::LookupIpStrategy, IntoName, TokioResolver};
 #[cfg(feature = "dns")]
 use log::debug;
 use tokio::net::TcpStream;
@@ -130,7 +128,10 @@ impl DnsConfig {
             return Ok(TcpStream::connect(&SocketAddr::new(ip, fallback_port)).await?);
         }
 
-        let resolver = TokioAsyncResolver::tokio_from_system_conf()?;
+        let (_config, options) = hickory_resolver::system_conf::read_system_conf()?;
+        let resolver = TokioResolver::builder_tokio()?
+            .with_options(options)
+            .build();
 
         let srv_domain = format!("{}.{}.", srv, ascii_domain).into_name()?;
         let srv_records = resolver.srv_lookup(srv_domain.clone()).await.ok();
@@ -164,9 +165,11 @@ impl DnsConfig {
             return Ok(TcpStream::connect(&SocketAddr::new(ip, port)).await?);
         }
 
-        let (config, mut options) = hickory_resolver::system_conf::read_system_conf()?;
+        let (_config, mut options) = hickory_resolver::system_conf::read_system_conf()?;
         options.ip_strategy = LookupIpStrategy::Ipv4AndIpv6;
-        let resolver = TokioAsyncResolver::new(config, options, TokioConnectionProvider::default());
+        let resolver = TokioResolver::builder_tokio()?
+            .with_options(options)
+            .build();
 
         let ips = resolver.lookup_ip(ascii_domain).await?;
 
diff --git a/tokio-xmpp/src/error.rs b/tokio-xmpp/src/error.rs
index a8b25f81e12c470923255b48676943178426c646..181a1732ec377301e199a84f413abdce4cf6a317 100644
--- a/tokio-xmpp/src/error.rs
+++ b/tokio-xmpp/src/error.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 use core::{error::Error as StdError, fmt, net::AddrParseError, str::Utf8Error};
 #[cfg(feature = "dns")]
-use hickory_resolver::{
-    error::ResolveError as DnsResolveError, proto::error::ProtoError as DnsProtoError,
-};
+use hickory_resolver::{proto::ProtoError as DnsProtoError, ResolveError as DnsResolveError};
 use sasl::client::MechanismError as SaslMechanismError;
 use std::io;