diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/net-dns/c-ares/Manifest b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/net-dns/c-ares/Manifest
index 4ebd15a41e..8eec62a363 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/net-dns/c-ares/Manifest
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/net-dns/c-ares/Manifest
@@ -1 +1 @@
-DIST c-ares-1.16.1.tar.gz 1374637 BLAKE2B 0d87538f5d6cac5b6b9c92d6ba5525af0e580e6506bee9270318f0951aaccdc7e135b446381e8150241d367789ccf2f73dbb333d45de4dbb5a87af05483063a8 SHA512 4ac2a5d5c6da74eb1d6155c4eadc7127ab1b53a8d13caec41bd6172db5417a79f3ab022e77ba37d8b13da6893d7ced5fd8baf5cc3950a4154b4de8743ad31471
+DIST c-ares-1.17.1.tar.gz 1518701 BLAKE2B 31dac21ecae231e2a201dc1ba954c1a0663a06f93eb8e7e033ca3c6d385f53e07af0b04854739f1ee8a7f0693f67f620143e152ef092b49342c62279a0480905 SHA512 b11887bcc9274d368088e1a8b6aca62414f20675cf0bc58e948f54fa04c327c39dd23cefe7509eec6397db14b550a3f6b77f5c18b3d735b3eef48ce2da1dcd00
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/net-dns/c-ares/c-ares-1.16.1.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/net-dns/c-ares/c-ares-1.17.1.ebuild
similarity index 79%
rename from sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/net-dns/c-ares/c-ares-1.16.1.ebuild
rename to sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/net-dns/c-ares/c-ares-1.17.1.ebuild
index b2ec52821e..4d7c73e9bc 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/net-dns/c-ares/c-ares-1.16.1.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/net-dns/c-ares/c-ares-1.17.1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ HOMEPAGE="https://c-ares.haxx.se/"
 SRC_URI="https://${PN}.haxx.se/download/${P}.tar.gz"
 
 LICENSE="MIT"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc64-solaris"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~sparc64-solaris"
 IUSE="static-libs"
 
 # Subslot = SONAME of libcares.so.2
@@ -22,17 +22,12 @@ MULTILIB_WRAPPED_HEADERS=(
 	/usr/include/ares_build.h
 )
 
-src_prepare() {
-	eapply "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.12.0-remove-tests.patch
-	eapply_user
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
 multilib_src_configure() {
 	ECONF_SOURCE=${S} \
 	econf \
 		--enable-nonblocking \
 		--enable-symbol-hiding \
+		--disable-tests \
 		$(use_enable static-libs static)
 }
 
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/net-dns/c-ares/files/c-ares-1.12.0-remove-tests.patch b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/net-dns/c-ares/files/c-ares-1.12.0-remove-tests.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 826eb856de..0000000000
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/net-dns/c-ares/files/c-ares-1.12.0-remove-tests.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur c-ares-1.12.0.orig/configure.ac c-ares-1.12.0/configure.ac
---- c-ares-1.12.0.orig/configure.ac	2016-09-29 07:43:01.000000000 -0400
-+++ c-ares-1.12.0/configure.ac	2016-10-14 03:10:36.253342032 -0400
-@@ -837,10 +837,6 @@
- fi
- AC_MSG_RESULT([$build_tests])
- 
--if test "x$build_tests" = "xyes" ; then
--  AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([test])
--fi
--
- AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile libcares.pc])
- AC_OUTPUT
- XC_AMEND_DISTCLEAN(['.'])