diff --git a/Lib/test/test_socket.py b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
index a2de398c80d6..969677b6a3c4 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_socket.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
@@ -1202,7 +1202,8 @@ def testGetaddrinfo(self):
         self.assertRaises(UnicodeEncodeError, socket.getaddrinfo, 'localhost', '\uD800')
 
         # Issue 17269
-        socket.getaddrinfo("localhost", None, 0, 0, 0, socket.AI_NUMERICSERV)
+        if hasattr(socket, 'AI_NUMERICSERV'):
+            socket.getaddrinfo("localhost", None, 0, 0, 0, socket.AI_NUMERICSERV)
 
     def test_getnameinfo(self):
         # only IP addresses are allowed
diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index f1e310d2897b..46265ade8911 100644
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -4975,7 +4975,7 @@ socket_getaddrinfo(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject* kwargs)
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OSError, "Int or String expected");
         goto err;
     }
-#ifdef __APPLE__
+#if defined(__APPLE__) && defined(AI_NUMERICSERV)
     if ((flags & AI_NUMERICSERV) && (pptr == NULL || (pptr[0] == '0' && pptr[1] == 0))) {
         /* On OSX upto at least OSX 10.8 getaddrinfo crashes
 	 * if AI_NUMERICSERV is set and the servname is NULL or "0".