diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 2d99a6125..92613bc6b 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/mdlayher/genetlink v1.3.2
 	github.com/mdlayher/netlink v1.7.2
 	github.com/mdlayher/sdnotify v1.0.0
-	github.com/miekg/dns v1.1.54
+	github.com/miekg/dns v1.1.55
 	github.com/mitchellh/go-ps v1.0.0
 	github.com/peterbourgon/ff/v3 v3.3.0
 	github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 10eaa3632..1848ea67e 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -767,8 +767,8 @@ github.com/mdlayher/socket v0.4.1/go.mod h1:cAqeGjoufqdxWkD7DkpyS+wcefOtmu5OQ8Ku
 github.com/mgechev/revive v1.3.1 h1:OlQkcH40IB2cGuprTPcjB0iIUddgVZgGmDX3IAMR8D4=
 github.com/mgechev/revive v1.3.1/go.mod h1:YlD6TTWl2B8A103R9KWJSPVI9DrEf+oqr15q21Ld+5I=
 github.com/miekg/dns v1.0.14/go.mod h1:W1PPwlIAgtquWBMBEV9nkV9Cazfe8ScdGz/Lj7v3Nrg=
-github.com/miekg/dns v1.1.54 h1:5jon9mWcb0sFJGpnI99tOMhCPyJ+RPVz5b63MQG0VWI=
-github.com/miekg/dns v1.1.54/go.mod h1:uInx36IzPl7FYnDcMeVWxj9byh7DutNykX4G9Sj60FY=
+github.com/miekg/dns v1.1.55 h1:GoQ4hpsj0nFLYe+bWiCToyrBEJXkQfOOIvFGFy0lEgo=
+github.com/miekg/dns v1.1.55/go.mod h1:uInx36IzPl7FYnDcMeVWxj9byh7DutNykX4G9Sj60FY=
 github.com/mitchellh/cli v1.0.0/go.mod h1:hNIlj7HEI86fIcpObd7a0FcrxTWetlwJDGcceTlRvqc=
 github.com/mitchellh/copystructure v1.0.0/go.mod h1:SNtv71yrdKgLRyLFxmLdkAbkKEFWgYaq1OVrnRcwhnw=
 github.com/mitchellh/copystructure v1.2.0 h1:vpKXTN4ewci03Vljg/q9QvCGUDttBOGBIa15WveJJGw=
diff --git a/net/dns/recursive/recursive.go b/net/dns/recursive/recursive.go
index 8bba66944..98bbaaf31 100644
--- a/net/dns/recursive/recursive.go
+++ b/net/dns/recursive/recursive.go
@@ -582,12 +582,8 @@ func (r *Resolver) queryNameserverProto(
 		}
 
 		// Send the DNS request to the current nameserver.
-		//
-		// TODO(andrew): use ExchangeWithConnContext after this upstream PR is
-		// merged:
-		//    https://github.com/miekg/dns/pull/1459
 		r.depthlogf(depth, "asking %s over %s about %q (type: %v)", nameserverStr, protocol, name, qtype)
-		resp, _, err = c.ExchangeWithConn(m, conn)
+		resp, _, err = c.ExchangeWithConnContext(ctx, m, conn)
 	}
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err