diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index cc2a187843..5ebcb65ec3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ jsonschema!=2.5.0,<3.0.0,>=2.0.0
 testtools>=1.4.0
 boto>=2.32.1
 paramiko>=1.13.0
-netaddr>=0.7.12
+netaddr>=0.7.12,!=0.7.16
 testrepository>=0.0.18
 pyOpenSSL>=0.14
 oslo.concurrency>=2.3.0 # Apache-2.0