diff --git a/groups/241.native_packages_inet.group b/groups/241.native_packages_inet.group
index 8a9f714..cbd3826 100644
--- a/groups/241.native_packages_inet.group
+++ b/groups/241.native_packages_inet.group
@@ -192,9 +192,9 @@ proxytunnel rsync socat thttpd w3m weechat wget whois")";
 : ${PKG_RSYNC_VERSION:=3.2.3};
 : ${PKG_RSYNC_URL:=https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-${PKG_RSYNC_VERSION}.tar.gz};
 : ${PKG_RSYNC_CONFIGURE_ARGS_EXTRA:="--with-included-zlib --disable-simd --disable-xxhash --disable-lz4 --disable-zstd"};
-: ${PKG_SOCAT_SHA256SUM:=ce3efc17e3e544876ebce7cd6c85b3c279fda057b2857fcaaf67b9ab8bdaf034};
-: ${PKG_SOCAT_VERSION:=1.7.3.2};
-: ${PKG_SOCAT_URL:=http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-1.7.3.2.tar.gz};
+: ${PKG_SOCAT_SHA256SUM:=d9ed2075abed7b3ec9730ed729b4c8e287c502181c806d4487020418a6e2fc36};
+: ${PKG_SOCAT_VERSION:=1.7.3.4};
+: ${PKG_SOCAT_URL:=http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-${PKG_SOCAT_VERSION}.tar.gz};
 : ${PKG_THTTPD_SHA256SUM:=99c09f47da326b1e7b5295c45549d2b65534dce27c44812cf7eef1441681a397};
 : ${PKG_THTTPD_VERSION:=2.29};
 : ${PKG_THTTPD_URL:=https://acme.com/software/thttpd/thttpd-${PKG_THTTPD_VERSION}.tar.gz};
diff --git a/patches/socat-1.7.3.2.local.patch b/patches/socat-1.7.3.2.local.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d1ebc8e..0000000
--- a/patches/socat-1.7.3.2.local.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- socat-1.7.2.4.orig/compat.h
-+++ socat-1.7.2.4/compat.h
-@@ -656,6 +656,10 @@
- #  define NETDB_INTERNAL h_NETDB_INTERNAL
- #endif
- 
-+#if !defined(NETDB_INTERNAL)
-+#  define NETDB_INTERNAL (-1)
-+#endif
-+
- #ifndef INET_ADDRSTRLEN
- #  define INET_ADDRSTRLEN sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)
- #endif
diff --git a/patches/socat-1.7.3.4.local.patch b/patches/socat-1.7.3.4.local.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0bf5073
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/socat-1.7.3.4.local.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- socat-1.7.3.4/compat.h.orig	2019-04-04 09:59:55.000000000 +0100
++++ socat-1.7.3.4/compat.h	2021-01-12 12:41:10.675182890 +0000
+@@ -695,6 +695,10 @@
+ #  define NETDB_INTERNAL h_NETDB_INTERNAL
+ #endif
+ 
++#if !defined(NETDB_INTERNAL)
++#  define NETDB_INTERNAL (-1)
++#endif
++
+ #ifndef INET_ADDRSTRLEN
+ #  define INET_ADDRSTRLEN sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)
+ #endif