diff --git a/dirmngr/dns.c b/dirmngr/dns.c
index 6acb4faa2..f6a158789 100644
--- a/dirmngr/dns.c
+++ b/dirmngr/dns.c
@@ -10632,8 +10632,11 @@ static int parse_packet(int argc DNS_NOTUSED, char *argv[] DNS_NOTUSED) {
 #if 0
 	dns_rr_foreach(&rr, Q, .name = "ns8.yahoo.com.") {
 #else
+	char _p[DNS_D_MAXNAME + 1] = { 0 };
+	const char *dn = "ns8.yahoo.com";
+	char *_name = dns_d_init(_p, sizeof _p, dn, strlen (dn), DNS_D_ANCHOR);
 	struct dns_rr rrset[32];
-	struct dns_rr_i *rri	= dns_rr_i_new(Q, .name = dns_d_new("ns8.yahoo.com", DNS_D_ANCHOR), .sort = MAIN.sort);
+	struct dns_rr_i *rri	= dns_rr_i_new(Q, .name = _name, .sort = MAIN.sort);
 	unsigned rrcount	= dns_rr_grep(rrset, lengthof(rrset), rri, Q, &error);
 
 	for (unsigned i = 0; i < rrcount; i++) {
@@ -10661,13 +10664,14 @@ static int parse_packet(int argc DNS_NOTUSED, char *argv[] DNS_NOTUSED) {
 
 
 static int parse_domain(int argc, char *argv[]) {
+	char _p[DNS_D_MAXNAME + 1] = { 0 };
 	char *dn;
 
 	dn	= (argc > 1)? argv[1] : "f.l.google.com";
 
 	printf("[%s]\n", dn);
 
-	dn	= dns_d_new(dn);
+	dn	= dns_d_init(_p, sizeof _p, dn, strlen (dn), DNS_D_ANCHOR);
 
 	do {
 		puts(dn);
diff --git a/dirmngr/dns.h b/dirmngr/dns.h
index 4a9417120..0953228f8 100644
--- a/dirmngr/dns.h
+++ b/dirmngr/dns.h
@@ -451,11 +451,6 @@ DNS_PUBLIC int dns_p_study(struct dns_packet *);
 #define DNS_D_CLEAVE	2	/* cleave sub-domain */
 #define DNS_D_TRIM	4	/* remove superfluous dots */
 
-#define dns_d_new3(a, b, f)	dns_d_init(&(char[DNS_D_MAXNAME + 1]){ 0 }, DNS_D_MAXNAME + 1, (a), (b), (f))
-#define dns_d_new2(a, f)	dns_d_new3((a), strlen((a)), (f))
-#define dns_d_new1(a)		dns_d_new3((a), strlen((a)), DNS_D_ANCHOR)
-#define dns_d_new(...)		DNS_PP_CALL(DNS_PP_XPASTE(dns_d_new, DNS_PP_NARG(__VA_ARGS__)), __VA_ARGS__)
-
 DNS_PUBLIC char *dns_d_init(void *, size_t, const void *, size_t, int);
 
 DNS_PUBLIC size_t dns_d_anchor(void *, size_t, const void *, size_t);