diff --git a/dns/dnsdist/Makefile b/dns/dnsdist/Makefile
index 454bcb2381d8..e51badae7d85 100644
--- a/dns/dnsdist/Makefile
+++ b/dns/dnsdist/Makefile
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	dnsdist
-DISTVERSION=	1.5.0
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	1.5.1
 CATEGORIES=	dns net
 MASTER_SITES=	https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/
 
diff --git a/dns/dnsdist/distinfo b/dns/dnsdist/distinfo
index 9284d63514b8..ffbc5bb8a933 100644
--- a/dns/dnsdist/distinfo
+++ b/dns/dnsdist/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1596123185
-SHA256 (dnsdist-1.5.0.tar.bz2) = 2c07c4ef0c497f5223909ff181fe3ba7c6016962a2855cffe26b7f3609f27b58
-SIZE (dnsdist-1.5.0.tar.bz2) = 1067645
+TIMESTAMP = 1601542484
+SHA256 (dnsdist-1.5.1.tar.bz2) = cae759729a87703f4d09b0ed4227cb224aaaa252fa92f2432fd7116f560afbf1
+SIZE (dnsdist-1.5.1.tar.bz2) = 1068061
diff --git a/dns/dnsdist/files/dnsdist.in b/dns/dnsdist/files/dnsdist.in
index abf03ec8649f..725cefc15f5e 100644
--- a/dns/dnsdist/files/dnsdist.in
+++ b/dns/dnsdist/files/dnsdist.in
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 #
 # PROVIDE: dnsdist
-# REQUIRE: DAEMON NETWORKING
+# REQUIRE: FILESYSTEMS defaultroute netwait resolv
+# BEFORE: NETWORKING
 # KEYWORD: shutdown
 #
 # Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf to enable dnsdist:
diff --git a/dns/dnsdist/files/patch-dnsdist-console.cc b/dns/dnsdist/files/patch-dnsdist-console.cc
deleted file mode 100644
index 5745f1fc248c..000000000000
--- a/dns/dnsdist/files/patch-dnsdist-console.cc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-Backport of:
-	https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/commit/e7c6996eb650d17372548899408160bb2d712511
-
---- dnsdist-console.cc.orig	2020-08-28 19:39:07 UTC
-+++ dnsdist-console.cc
-@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ const std::vector<ConsoleKeyword> g_consoleKeywords{
-   { "setMaxTCPQueriesPerConnection", true, "n", "set the maximum number of queries in an incoming TCP connection. 0 means unlimited" },
-   { "setMaxTCPQueuedConnections", true, "n", "set the maximum number of TCP connections queued (waiting to be picked up by a client thread)" },
-   { "setMaxUDPOutstanding", true, "n", "set the maximum number of outstanding UDP queries to a given backend server. This can only be set at configuration time and defaults to 65535" },
--  { "SetNegativeAndSOAAction", "true", "nxd, zone, ttl, mname, rname, serial, refresh, retry, expire, minimum [, options]", "Turn a query into a NXDomain or NoData answer and sets a SOA record in the additional section" },
-+  { "SetNegativeAndSOAAction", true, "nxd, zone, ttl, mname, rname, serial, refresh, retry, expire, minimum [, options]", "Turn a query into a NXDomain or NoData answer and sets a SOA record in the additional section" },
-   { "setPayloadSizeOnSelfGeneratedAnswers", true, "payloadSize", "set the UDP payload size advertised via EDNS on self-generated responses" },
-   { "setPoolServerPolicy", true, "policy, pool", "set the server selection policy for this pool to that policy" },
-   { "setPoolServerPolicyLua", true, "name, func, pool", "set the server selection policy for this pool to one named 'name' and provided by 'function'" },