diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 3b24c7b..67aec60 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Porting:
 
 	New Linux distributions dislike egrep, fgrep
 
+	When NETDB_INTERNAL is not available it should be set to -1.
+	Thanks to Baruch Siach for sending a patch.
+
 Testing:
 	test.sh: lots of corrections and improvements
 
diff --git a/compat.h b/compat.h
index bb7e2d8..72e73c7 100644
--- a/compat.h
+++ b/compat.h
@@ -851,6 +851,8 @@ typedef unsigned long T_sigset;
 
 #if !defined(NETDB_INTERNAL) && defined(h_NETDB_INTERNAL)
 #  define NETDB_INTERNAL h_NETDB_INTERNAL
+#elif !defined(NETDB_INTERNAL)
+#  define NETDB_INTERNAL (-1)
 #endif
 
 #ifndef INET_ADDRSTRLEN
diff --git a/xio-ip.c b/xio-ip.c
index 2f35448..c67aaa2 100644
--- a/xio-ip.c
+++ b/xio-ip.c
@@ -391,6 +391,9 @@ int xiogetaddrinfo(const char *node, const char *service,
       }
    }
 
+#else
+   Error("no resolver function available");
+   return STAT_NORETRY;
 #endif
 
    if (numnode)  free(numnode);