diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f1a852443..28f0088d7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2004-12-16  David Shaw  <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
+
+	* configure.ac: Check for arpa/nameser.h.
+
 2004-12-16  Werner Koch  <wk@g10code.com>
 
 	Released 1.4.0.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 6ceff5b39..bee81ba4b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_CARD_SUPPORT, test "$card_support" = yes)
 
 dnl Checks for header files.
 AC_HEADER_STDC
-AC_CHECK_HEADERS(unistd.h langinfo.h termio.h locale.h getopt.h)
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([unistd.h langinfo.h termio.h locale.h getopt.h arpa/nameser.h])
 
 # Note that we do not check for iconv here because this is done anyway
 # by the gettext checks and thus it allows us to disable the use of