diff --git a/net-dns/openresolv/Manifest b/net-dns/openresolv/Manifest
index 0572b837ba37d..5df5268981952 100644
--- a/net-dns/openresolv/Manifest
+++ b/net-dns/openresolv/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST openresolv-3.8.1.tar.xz 18396 SHA256 d259d78fd92ac288f1b27959daee11be9a40d70e91af5432046164c260de1d43 SHA512 390bf30bb85b071839104e5c7e276b402f6f485edc038e38da389730d82e614bb11b0dde44a55aa2ca5e790b374671a9c89cc07b053633401a608150eebbf2c8 WHIRLPOOL 34f1c545053c444d950c3a3f9c0775e377c70a2b45af561cec94f96cd171237e2e2de1cd5a45c39c4e996f87aa206b986740557aaf0104f9af9f3c66f1d1a0c1
+DIST openresolv-3.9.0.tar.xz 18844 SHA256 51a04d39232bb797c9efeaad51a525cf50a1deefcb19a1ea5dd3475118634db8 SHA512 4498db60f0b5a762194dd3651b94cc8b01a349a8cfb891e10d040cd6b8e22fa0e9897909517831591787ad22ffad97c78d3281e32296aa1ee67de5dff9bf765e WHIRLPOOL 2f912211c787517baee2e3b5f5b8036fe3a2c78d62f2366c22e256f2e236fd8a748a3816b8f2c09ba3846377a21c1ddca65a9dc96af37104682e7cbcf6aa52ff
diff --git a/net-dns/openresolv/openresolv-3.9.0.ebuild b/net-dns/openresolv/openresolv-3.9.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9d55675b8ac49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-dns/openresolv/openresolv-3.9.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+DESCRIPTION="A framework for managing DNS information"
+HOMEPAGE="http://roy.marples.name/projects/openresolv"
+SRC_URI="http://roy.marples.name/downloads/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"
+IUSE="selinux"
+
+DEPEND="!net-dns/resolvconf-gentoo
+	!<net-dns/dnsmasq-2.40-r1"
+RDEPEND="selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-resolvconf )"
+
+src_configure() {
+	econf \
+		--prefix="${EPREFIX}" \
+		--rundir="${EPREFIX}"/var/run \
+		--libexecdir="${EPREFIX}"/lib/resolvconf
+}
+
+pkg_config() {
+	if [[ ${ROOT} != / ]]; then
+		eerror "We cannot configure unless \$ROOT=/"
+		return 1
+	fi
+
+	if [[ -n "$(resolvconf -l)" ]]; then
+		einfo "${PN} already has DNS information"
+	else
+		ebegin "Copying /etc/resolv.conf to resolvconf -a dummy"
+		resolvconf -a dummy </etc/resolv.conf
+		eend $? || return $?
+		einfo "The dummy interface will disappear when you next reboot"
+	fi
+}