diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f03f948a6..4fb823cbc 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ jinja2==3.1.6
 log-rate-limit==1.4.2
 orjson==3.11.5
 pulsectl==24.12.0
+pycares>=4.0.0,<5.0.0
 pyudev==0.24.4
 PyYAML==6.0.3
 requests==2.32.5