diff --git a/net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.33.ebuild b/net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.33-r1.ebuild
similarity index 93%
rename from net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.33.ebuild
rename to net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.33-r1.ebuild
index 9fac2b5c984e..a0e03ab0062c 100644
--- a/net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.33.ebuild
+++ b/net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.33-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -21,8 +21,11 @@ IUSE="+caps doc gssapi idn libedit readline test xml"
 # no PKCS11 currently as it requires OpenSSL to be patched, also see bug #409687
 RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 
+# libuv lower bound should be the highest value seen at
+# https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/blob/v9_16/lib/isc/netmgr/netmgr.c#L244
+# to avoid issues with matching stable/testing, etc
 COMMON_DEPEND="
-	dev-libs/libuv:=
+	>=dev-libs/libuv-1.42.0:=
 	dev-libs/openssl:=
 	caps? ( sys-libs/libcap )
 	xml? ( dev-libs/libxml2 )
diff --git a/net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.36.ebuild b/net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.36-r1.ebuild
similarity index 94%
rename from net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.36.ebuild
rename to net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.36-r1.ebuild
index 4e991c95960e..632173751156 100644
--- a/net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.36.ebuild
+++ b/net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.36-r1.ebuild
@@ -21,8 +21,11 @@ IUSE="+caps doc gssapi idn libedit readline test xml"
 # no PKCS11 currently as it requires OpenSSL to be patched, also see bug #409687
 RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 
+# libuv lower bound should be the highest value seen at
+# https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/blob/v9_16/lib/isc/netmgr/netmgr.c#L244
+# to avoid issues with matching stable/testing, etc
 COMMON_DEPEND="
-	dev-libs/libuv:=
+	>=dev-libs/libuv-1.42.0:=
 	dev-libs/openssl:=
 	caps? ( sys-libs/libcap )
 	xml? ( dev-libs/libxml2 )
diff --git a/net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.37.ebuild b/net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.37-r1.ebuild
similarity index 94%
rename from net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.37.ebuild
rename to net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.37-r1.ebuild
index 8c70c6e06ed8..da4c92eb0df6 100644
--- a/net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.37.ebuild
+++ b/net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.37-r1.ebuild
@@ -21,8 +21,11 @@ IUSE="+caps doc gssapi idn libedit readline test xml"
 # no PKCS11 currently as it requires OpenSSL to be patched, also see bug #409687
 RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 
+# libuv lower bound should be the highest value seen at
+# https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/blob/v9_16/lib/isc/netmgr/netmgr.c#L244
+# to avoid issues with matching stable/testing, etc
 COMMON_DEPEND="
-	dev-libs/libuv:=
+	>=dev-libs/libuv-1.42.0:=
 	dev-libs/openssl:=
 	caps? ( sys-libs/libcap )
 	xml? ( dev-libs/libxml2 )