diff --git a/rockspec b/rockspec
index c9d909168..fc7206662 100644
--- a/rockspec
+++ b/rockspec
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ dependencies = {
   'busted  >= 0',
   'ldoc >= 0',
   'lua-resty-repl >= 0',
+  'lua-resty-iputils == 0.3.0-1', -- just as dev dependency before gets bumped to runtime
 }
 build = {
   type = "builtin",