diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_251.4.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_251.4.bb
index 8497e24af9..0f30b7dbb3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_251.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_251.4.bb
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= " \
     ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sysvinit', '', 'link-udev-shared', d)} \
     backlight \
     binfmt \
+    default-dns-fallback \
     gshadow \
     hibernate \
     hostnamed \
@@ -129,6 +130,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[coredump] = "-Dcoredump=true,-Dcoredump=false"
 PACKAGECONFIG[cryptsetup] = "-Dlibcryptsetup=true,-Dlibcryptsetup=false,cryptsetup,,cryptsetup"
 PACKAGECONFIG[tpm2] = "-Dtpm2=true,-Dtpm2=false,tpm2-tss,tpm2-tss libtss2 libtss2-tcti-device"
 PACKAGECONFIG[dbus] = "-Ddbus=true,-Ddbus=false,dbus"
+PACKAGECONFIG[default-dns-fallback] = ",-Ddns-servers="
 PACKAGECONFIG[efi] = "-Defi=true,-Defi=false"
 PACKAGECONFIG[gnu-efi] = "-Dgnu-efi=true -Defi-libdir=${STAGING_LIBDIR} -Defi-includedir=${STAGING_INCDIR}/efi,-Dgnu-efi=false,gnu-efi"
 PACKAGECONFIG[elfutils] = "-Delfutils=true,-Delfutils=false,elfutils"