diff --git a/tokio-xmpp/Cargo.toml b/tokio-xmpp/Cargo.toml
index 02a2232b..c8359172 100644
--- a/tokio-xmpp/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tokio-xmpp/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ xmpp-parsers = { version = "0.22", path = "../parsers", features = [ "log" ] }
 xso = { version = "0.3", path = "../xso" }
 
 # these are only needed for starttls ServerConnector support
-hickory-resolver = { version = "0.25", optional = true}
+hickory-resolver = { version = "0.26", optional = true}
 idna = { version = "1.0", optional = true}
 native-tls = { version = "0.2", optional = true }
 tokio-native-tls = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
diff --git a/tokio-xmpp/ChangeLog b/tokio-xmpp/ChangeLog
index 63020a6d..57bceae6 100644
--- a/tokio-xmpp/ChangeLog
+++ b/tokio-xmpp/ChangeLog
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ Version NEXT:
         tokio-xmpp's `IqResponseTracker`.
       - Actually count inbound stream management stanzas (!657) instead of
         always sending h='0' in our `<a/>`.
+    * Changed:
+      - Update hickory-dns to 0.26 (!671)
 
 Version 5.0.0:
 2025-10-28 pep <pep@bouah.net>
diff --git a/tokio-xmpp/src/connect/dns.rs b/tokio-xmpp/src/connect/dns.rs
index c1cd796b..716ce714 100644
--- a/tokio-xmpp/src/connect/dns.rs
+++ b/tokio-xmpp/src/connect/dns.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ use core::{fmt, net::SocketAddr};
 #[cfg(feature = "dns")]
 use futures::{future::select_ok, FutureExt};
 #[cfg(feature = "dns")]
-use hickory_resolver::{config::LookupIpStrategy, IntoName, TokioResolver};
+use hickory_resolver::{
+    config::LookupIpStrategy, proto::rr::IntoName, proto::rr::RData, TokioResolver,
+};
 #[cfg(feature = "dns")]
 use log::debug;
 use tokio::net::TcpStream;
@@ -131,7 +133,7 @@ impl DnsConfig {
         let (_config, options) = hickory_resolver::system_conf::read_system_conf()?;
         let resolver = TokioResolver::builder_tokio()?
             .with_options(options)
-            .build();
+            .build()?;
 
         let srv_domain = format!("{}.{}.", srv, ascii_domain).into_name()?;
         let srv_records = resolver.srv_lookup(srv_domain.clone()).await.ok();
@@ -139,10 +141,13 @@ impl DnsConfig {
         match srv_records {
             Some(lookup) => {
                 // TODO: sort lookup records by priority/weight
-                for srv in lookup.iter() {
+                for record in lookup.answers().iter() {
+                    let RData::SRV(ref srv) = record.data else {
+                        continue;
+                    };
+
                     debug!("Attempting connection to {srv_domain} {srv}");
-                    if let Ok(stream) =
-                        Self::resolve_no_srv(&srv.target().to_ascii(), srv.port()).await
+                    if let Ok(stream) = Self::resolve_no_srv(&srv.target.to_ascii(), srv.port).await
                     {
                         return Ok(stream);
                     }
@@ -169,14 +174,14 @@ impl DnsConfig {
         options.ip_strategy = LookupIpStrategy::Ipv4AndIpv6;
         let resolver = TokioResolver::builder_tokio()?
             .with_options(options)
-            .build();
+            .build()?;
 
         let ips = resolver.lookup_ip(ascii_domain).await?;
 
         // Happy Eyeballs: connect to all records in parallel, return the
         // first to succeed
         select_ok(
-            ips.into_iter()
+            ips.iter()
                 .map(|ip| TcpStream::connect(SocketAddr::new(ip, port)).boxed()),
         )
         .await
diff --git a/tokio-xmpp/src/error.rs b/tokio-xmpp/src/error.rs
index 6d68c7b6..c0cd7043 100644
--- a/tokio-xmpp/src/error.rs
+++ b/tokio-xmpp/src/error.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use core::{fmt, net::AddrParseError, str::Utf8Error};
 #[cfg(feature = "dns")]
-use hickory_resolver::{proto::ProtoError as DnsProtoError, ResolveError as DnsResolveError};
+use hickory_resolver::{net::NetError as DnsNetError, proto::ProtoError as DnsProtoError};
 use sasl::client::MechanismError as SaslMechanismError;
 use std::io;
 use thiserror::Error;
@@ -45,11 +45,11 @@ pub enum Error {
     /// DNS protocol error
     #[cfg(feature = "dns")]
     #[error("{0:?}")]
-    Dns(#[from] DnsProtoError),
-    /// DNS resolution error
+    DnsProto(#[from] DnsProtoError),
+    /// DNS network error
     #[cfg(feature = "dns")]
     #[error("{0:?}")]
-    Resolve(#[from] DnsResolveError),
+    DnsNet(#[from] DnsNetError),
     /// DNS label conversion error, no details available from module
     /// `idna`
     #[cfg(feature = "dns")]