diff --git a/changes/bug24050 b/changes/bug24050
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d184a77ac0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug24050
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+  o Minor bugfixes (client):
+    - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values.
+      These values were unused by default previously, but they should
+      not have been cached at all.  Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on
+      0.2.6.3-alpha.
diff --git a/src/or/config.c b/src/or/config.c
index a33812a4c7..d8f71a0193 100644
--- a/src/or/config.c
+++ b/src/or/config.c
@@ -6424,7 +6424,6 @@ port_cfg_new(size_t namelen)
   cfg->entry_cfg.ipv6_traffic = 1;
   cfg->entry_cfg.dns_request = 1;
   cfg->entry_cfg.onion_traffic = 1;
-  cfg->entry_cfg.cache_ipv4_answers = 1;
   cfg->entry_cfg.prefer_ipv6_virtaddr = 1;
   return cfg;
 }
@@ -6740,7 +6739,7 @@ parse_port_config(smartlist_t *out,
       bind_ipv4_only = 0, bind_ipv6_only = 0,
       ipv4_traffic = 1, ipv6_traffic = 1, prefer_ipv6 = 0, dns_request = 1,
       onion_traffic = 1,
-      cache_ipv4 = 1, use_cached_ipv4 = 0,
+      cache_ipv4 = 0, use_cached_ipv4 = 0,
       cache_ipv6 = 0, use_cached_ipv6 = 0,
       prefer_ipv6_automap = 1, world_writable = 0, group_writable = 0,
       relax_dirmode_check = 0,