diff --git a/app-containers/aardvark-dns/Manifest b/app-containers/aardvark-dns/Manifest
index 45d1a0b566a1..bdf92c3561e6 100644
--- a/app-containers/aardvark-dns/Manifest
+++ b/app-containers/aardvark-dns/Manifest
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 DIST aardvark-dns-1.14.0.crate 58825 BLAKE2B 4c87b1986308aea5367042374fe5311f7a219bcd953a417526f0e67cda5b09ab9300ba9bcd9a40668be2267e7506c6c6ebc5f84d5eaf69101541065e40983ffc SHA512 c65258b2d3c2d9f0b507f1bdbddbd3235ac0745b3103631b16b99bd55473bed5eeb54e4d4b76610ec24f983846bfed1007f41b546135c9950bc7047ee588d389
 DIST aardvark-dns-1.15.0.crate 59884 BLAKE2B 6be0126b526359b1c402a6f10cfe9b28b9d351621b0f1e9556150fb2477a2c468938dbac1c11bde3eff6deb258ccfa6ed05e6f2a01206d3e08f1e88193016432 SHA512 963d68a662439ea920fbeec08eaa3b9fb486f5e61e46b702b0c9211241c3b1057ce573bac1f75ed558faa0cc99b0f36b7f5299c296e30b6ce6ed046a02cd9782
+DIST aardvark-dns-1.17.0.crate 62370 BLAKE2B 7105e4c96e973d6cbda48d7db957423a0743330c53fd694be14951b85ba162624ffa3d96d6737856d7e5d39910a26403a4ab11e912317d6449a85642c8c5d236 SHA512 f8cc4f39b9a16106a7fbe08c94558507e0519018709ceb80474696be24328626f76aedf9bdd12c853be0728f4e9c57e945b442e7f66c22042e25410a690b69e0
 DIST aardvark-dns-v1.14.0-vendor.tar.gz 7516081 BLAKE2B d11cc8bf1ae6c21b47bb56a92426494b99467f50e5058dce21956dfd399456ddaf235d5308c770fe71a8d17ce727acbc9c6670d01f165eed08a7a4c4865b66c3 SHA512 0d738d0a737bfc9b6b2fe728de343a6a91c6e197d888fd37c0859b831b05f8c92efce13c268fc8f31a09bb78d43f4330230a0454744523df5a4fa96498ca3dac
 DIST aardvark-dns-v1.15.0-vendor.tar.gz 9910590 BLAKE2B 876be4b719cf7d364dbd8ce04a3984d32b24dfba81ece1ce56d1f3e3f80f2607eefd77ff7dece2a678240b1f996cb498ae81f1be06c8f7eaa696eb6001090e4b SHA512 fbe6e77a2d412ed34bcf2c710db3aa8989a5887ab475988c393fb1c49584cac5b09a34b82e880eebe81c59af7817985af87391ffb8421da07abf080704cae5c0
+DIST aardvark-dns-v1.17.0-vendor.tar.gz 10267613 BLAKE2B 72b5da08584c5a35188d50646ec98b6463578b09520121224807e3770d6e911b12f61597ca5852be75a8e9de9ade02d507f490ff3a414e681fe31076930dde78 SHA512 b7ec2a2a34d5bb36dbcc55611dc9ec0ff2c1bed4469cc4b12d4eb0bd78bb7d6cae6f80a02ac32ade5c435fdd11e22ddd99646aa4de504c8369ee56cfa470e6a5
diff --git a/app-containers/aardvark-dns/aardvark-dns-1.17.0.ebuild b/app-containers/aardvark-dns/aardvark-dns-1.17.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1272b60d0939
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-containers/aardvark-dns/aardvark-dns-1.17.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# Copyright 2023-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+RUST_MIN_VER="1.87.0"
+[[ ${PV} == 9999* ]] || CRATES="${PN}@${PV}"
+inherit cargo
+
+DESCRIPTION="A container-focused DNS server"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns"
+
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999* ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns.git"
+else
+	SRC_URI="${CARGO_CRATE_URIS}"
+	SRC_URI+="https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns/releases/download/v${PV}/${PN}-v${PV}-vendor.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~loong ~ppc64 ~riscv"
+fi
+
+# main
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+# deps
+LICENSE+=" 0BSD Apache-2.0-with-LLVM-exceptions MIT Unlicense Unicode-DFS-2016 ZLIB"
+SLOT="0"
+
+QA_FLAGS_IGNORED="usr/libexec/podman/${PN}"
+QA_PRESTRIPPED="usr/libexec/podman/${PN}"
+ECARGO_VENDOR="${WORKDIR}/vendor"
+
+src_unpack() {
+	if [[ ${PV} == 9999* ]]; then
+		git-r3_src_unpack
+		cargo_live_src_unpack
+	else
+		cargo_src_unpack
+	fi
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	sed -i -e "s|m0755 bin|m0755 $(cargo_target_dir)|g;" Makefile || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	local -x PREFIX="${EPREFIX}"/usr
+	default
+}