diff --git a/contrib/grpc-cmake/CMakeLists.txt b/contrib/grpc-cmake/CMakeLists.txt
index efb0f1c4f43..97ca3fab4db 100644
--- a/contrib/grpc-cmake/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/contrib/grpc-cmake/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,26 @@ else ()
   set(CARES_SHARED ON CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
 endif ()
 
+# Disable looking for libnsl on a platforms that has gethostbyname in glibc
+#
+# c-ares searching for gethostbyname in the libnsl library, however in the
+# version that shipped with gRPC it doing it wrong [1], since it uses
+# CHECK_LIBRARY_EXISTS(), which will return TRUE even if the function exists in
+# another dependent library. The upstream already contains correct macro [2],
+# but it is not included in gRPC (even upstream gRPC, not the one that is
+# shipped with clickhousee).
+#
+#   [1]: https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/blob/e982924acee7f7313b4baa4ee5ec000c5e373c30/CMakeLists.txt#L125
+#   [2]: https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/blob/44fbc813685a1fa8aa3f27fcd7544faf612d376a/CMakeLists.txt#L146
+#
+# And because if you by some reason have libnsl [3] installed, clickhouse will
+# reject to start w/o it. While this is completelly different library.
+#
+#   [3]: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/libnsl2
+if (NOT CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME STREQUAL "SunOS")
+  set(HAVE_LIBNSL OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+endif()
+
 # We don't want to build C# extensions.
 set(gRPC_BUILD_CSHARP_EXT OFF)