diff --git a/net-misc/rinetd/Manifest b/net-misc/rinetd/Manifest
index 28de4a7f75d58..f4c5ff624624f 100644
--- a/net-misc/rinetd/Manifest
+++ b/net-misc/rinetd/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST rinetd-0.62.tar.gz 115541 BLAKE2B 11a6db6955181ba6c823c3b8d9697e4efac10962364b4e993e9057b3500b09161826d325ac0dc3f6756c5cc91b29885c493ba5f053dffd28da97ecae25d2346f SHA512 b6ddb496b4542ad46aacaef4b2241b16b9ee43f2f6761a18a4813d83a0a9db23fbd73a554393dcf01ae7350e8b6662571414ca6f93a949ce4effbbeddc198606
+DIST rinetd-0.73.tar.bz2 115343 BLAKE2B c85ff0b65d28095a554b53bc7a1b162cbbdb8eabd1c3d1bd8475c64a5b9dd7ec576036e2318d3a8125ac52af323f8238bb4a3e05fe37d1d9ad87e4d6d6fbcb3b SHA512 e5d1c7e5826a75c520453032f6e4651700860505dfced625698fc036249b9f585a894e1fee905321878b2d2a265c843f5a746090311929518594263b33b64ed8
diff --git a/net-misc/rinetd/metadata.xml b/net-misc/rinetd/metadata.xml
index 85e4ed814fa25..381cfd02c8718 100644
--- a/net-misc/rinetd/metadata.xml
+++ b/net-misc/rinetd/metadata.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-<!-- maintainer-needed -->
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>ceamac@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Viorel Munteanu</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">samhocevar/rinetd</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/net-misc/rinetd/rinetd-0.73.ebuild b/net-misc/rinetd/rinetd-0.73.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..c81de62b5c303
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-misc/rinetd/rinetd-0.73.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DESCRIPTION="redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/samhocevar/rinetd"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/samhocevar/rinetd/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}.tar.bz2"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2+ GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/rinetd.rc rinetd
+}