diff --git a/src/bin/network/wget/configure.in b/src/bin/network/wget/configure.in
index e75ff81afb..d0d069a695 100644
--- a/src/bin/network/wget/configure.in
+++ b/src/bin/network/wget/configure.in
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ AC_HEADER_STDBOOL
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(unistd.h sys/time.h)
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(termios.h sys/ioctl.h sys/select.h utime.h sys/utime.h)
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(stdint.h inttypes.h pwd.h wchar.h)
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS(arpa/inet.h)
 
 dnl
 dnl Check sizes of integer types.  These are used to find n-bit
diff --git a/src/bin/network/wget/m4/wget.m4 b/src/bin/network/wget/m4/wget.m4
index d0c20b3546..f30785b798 100644
--- a/src/bin/network/wget/m4/wget.m4
+++ b/src/bin/network/wget/m4/wget.m4
@@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([WGET_POSIX_CLOCK], [
 
 dnl Check whether we need to link with -lnsl and -lsocket, as is the
 dnl case on e.g. Solaris.
+dnl BeOS (BONE) needs libbind as well
+dnl Haiku needs libnetwork
 
 AC_DEFUN([WGET_NSL_SOCKET], [
   dnl On Solaris, -lnsl is needed to use gethostbyname.  But checking
@@ -136,6 +138,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([WGET_NSL_SOCKET], [
     AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, $wget_check_in_nsl)
   fi
   AC_CHECK_LIB(socket, socket)
+  AC_CHECK_LIB(bind, gethostbyname)
+  AC_CHECK_LIB(network, gethostbyname)
 ])
 
 
diff --git a/src/bin/network/wget/src/config.h.in b/src/bin/network/wget/src/config.h.in
index f296c3cdf2..166cfdaedd 100644
--- a/src/bin/network/wget/src/config.h.in
+++ b/src/bin/network/wget/src/config.h.in
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
    */
 #undef HAVE_ALLOCA_H
 
+/* Define to 1 if you have the <arpa/inet.h> header file. */
+#undef HAVE_ARPA_INET_H
+
 /* Define when using built-in MD5. */
 #undef HAVE_BUILTIN_MD5
 
@@ -72,6 +75,9 @@
 /* Define to 1 if you have the `isatty' function. */
 #undef HAVE_ISATTY
 
+/* Define to 1 if you have the `bind' library (-lbind). */
+#undef HAVE_LIBBIND
+
 /* Define to 1 if you have the `dl' library (-ldl). */
 #undef HAVE_LIBDL
 
@@ -81,6 +87,9 @@
 /* Define to 1 if you have the <libintl.h> header file. */
 #undef HAVE_LIBINTL_H
 
+/* Define to 1 if you have the `network' library (-lnetwork). */
+#undef HAVE_LIBNETWORK
+
 /* Define to 1 if you have the `nsl' library (-lnsl). */
 #undef HAVE_LIBNSL
 
diff --git a/src/bin/network/wget/src/connect.c b/src/bin/network/wget/src/connect.c
index 6714576241..244b1cc793 100644
--- a/src/bin/network/wget/src/connect.c
+++ b/src/bin/network/wget/src/connect.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ as that of the covered work.  */
 # include <sys/socket.h>
 # include <netdb.h>
 # include <netinet/in.h>
-# ifndef __BEOS__
+# ifdef HAVE_ARPA_INET_H
 #  include <arpa/inet.h>
 # endif
 #endif /* not WINDOWS */
diff --git a/src/bin/network/wget/src/host.c b/src/bin/network/wget/src/host.c
index fb5a2cbfa1..3bf18a0762 100644
--- a/src/bin/network/wget/src/host.c
+++ b/src/bin/network/wget/src/host.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ as that of the covered work.  */
 #ifndef WINDOWS
 # include <sys/socket.h>
 # include <netinet/in.h>
-# ifndef __BEOS__
+# ifdef HAVE_ARPA_INET_H
 #  include <arpa/inet.h>
 # endif
 # include <netdb.h>
diff --git a/src/bin/network/wget/src/host.h b/src/bin/network/wget/src/host.h
index 5141a6f7d2..44a0bdb007 100644
--- a/src/bin/network/wget/src/host.h
+++ b/src/bin/network/wget/src/host.h
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ as that of the covered work.  */
 # include <netdb.h>
 # include <sys/socket.h>
 # include <netinet/in.h>
-#ifndef __BEOS__
-# include <arpa/inet.h>
-#endif
+# ifdef HAVE_ARPA_INET_H
+#  include <arpa/inet.h>
+# endif
 #endif
 
 struct url;