diff --git a/net-dns/dnswalk/Manifest b/net-dns/dnswalk/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 2eda9e7b4c156..0000000000000
--- a/net-dns/dnswalk/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST dnswalk-2.0.2.tar.gz 27015 BLAKE2B fa7b357b8075b9f5bc2afc97764eaf5e6c07d9fb67f4f10cb89010d3bad1e550d3b13ef013669323ff5259c3784e3fdb2c03f1e2c5cab86388e96f25210002be SHA512 23e5408149ae65f69dbb6d0ecaf5b10233e2279a502f6e19f0dacde0e270ed4eed0aea72f8c12dd636228e99b0b115a335bb8327a0628ad1f36dae5f5572712c
diff --git a/net-dns/dnswalk/dnswalk-2.0.2.ebuild b/net-dns/dnswalk/dnswalk-2.0.2.ebuild
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index 586828a9aac92..0000000000000
--- a/net-dns/dnswalk/dnswalk-2.0.2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-DESCRIPTION="dnswalk is a DNS database debugger"
-HOMEPAGE="https://sourceforge.net/projects/dnswalk/"
-SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/dnswalk/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="freedist"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ppc sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
-
-RDEPEND=">=dev-perl/Net-DNS-0.12"
-
-S="${WORKDIR}"
-
-PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.0.2-portable-shebang.patch )
-
-src_install() {
-	dobin dnswalk
-
-	einstalldocs
-	dodoc do-dnswalk makereports sendreports rfc1912.txt dnswalk.errors
-	doman dnswalk.1
-}
diff --git a/net-dns/dnswalk/files/dnswalk-2.0.2-portable-shebang.patch b/net-dns/dnswalk/files/dnswalk-2.0.2-portable-shebang.patch
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index f194ea738f1d2..0000000000000
--- a/net-dns/dnswalk/files/dnswalk-2.0.2-portable-shebang.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- a/dnswalk
-+++ b/dnswalk
-@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
--#!/usr/contrib/bin/perl
-+#!/usr/bin/env perl
- #
- # dnswalk    Walk through a DNS tree, pulling out zone data and
- # dumping it in a directory tree
diff --git a/net-dns/dnswalk/metadata.xml b/net-dns/dnswalk/metadata.xml
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index a26b864eb60af..0000000000000
--- a/net-dns/dnswalk/metadata.xml
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@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
-	<upstream>
-		<remote-id type="sourceforge">dnswalk</remote-id>
-	</upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index f4ae67e992042..7f5a1bf782f44 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -768,11 +768,6 @@ www-client/dillo
 # needed, removal in 30 days. Bug #834501
 dev-util/artifactory-bin
 
-# Michael Mair-Keimberger <mmk@levelnine.at> (2023-01-08)
-# Broken since many years, no reverse dependencies, last release from 2000
-# Bug #678518. Removal on 2023-02-08.
-net-dns/dnswalk
-
 # Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2023-01-05)
 # Breaks reverse dependencies: bug #889694, bug #888579.
 =sys-fs/btrfs-progs-6.1.1