diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 52430fb50..0a2ef285d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # - The casing of names is critical for dependency checks, eg. pyOpenSSL and not pyopenssl
 cffi==1.10.0
 cookies==2.2.1
-dnspython==1.15.0
+dnspython==2.6.0rc1
 hrt==0.1.0
 # Here till they upload a Python3 compatible version of the library
 -e git+https://github.com/google/ipaddr-py#egg=ipaddr