diff --git a/include/uv-unix.h b/include/uv-unix.h
index 99aab2b8a01..6565ff441ef 100644
--- a/include/uv-unix.h
+++ b/include/uv-unix.h
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 #include <netinet/tcp.h>
 #include <arpa/inet.h>
 #include <netdb.h>
-#include <net/if.h>
 
 #include <termios.h>
 #include <pwd.h>
diff --git a/src/unix/getaddrinfo.c b/src/unix/getaddrinfo.c
index 99a6ef33be3..0185971697a 100644
--- a/src/unix/getaddrinfo.c
+++ b/src/unix/getaddrinfo.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 #include <stddef.h> /* NULL */
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
+#include <net/if.h> /* if_indextoname() */
 
 /* EAI_* constants. */
 #include <netdb.h>