diff --git a/lib/core/connect.js b/lib/core/connect.js
index ad962c31944..f729dfb0526 100644
--- a/lib/core/connect.js
+++ b/lib/core/connect.js
@@ -105,13 +105,27 @@ function buildConnector ({ allowH2, preferH2, useH2c, maxCachedSessions, socketP
 
       port = port || 80
 
-      socket = net.connect({
+      const connectOptions = {
         highWaterMark: 64 * 1024, // Same as nodejs fs streams.
         ...options,
         localAddress,
         port,
         host: hostname
-      })
+      }
+
+      const family = net.isIP(hostname)
+      if (family !== 0 && servername && servername !== hostname) {
+        connectOptions.host = servername
+        connectOptions.lookup = (_hostname, lookupOptions, cb) => {
+          if (lookupOptions.all) {
+            cb(null, [{ address: hostname, family }])
+          } else {
+            cb(null, hostname, family)
+          }
+        }
+      }
+
+      socket = net.connect(connectOptions)
       if (useH2c === true) {
         socket.alpnProtocol = 'h2'
       }
diff --git a/lib/dispatcher/client.js b/lib/dispatcher/client.js
index 8a4f65171bd..3383c1ad306 100644
--- a/lib/dispatcher/client.js
+++ b/lib/dispatcher/client.js
@@ -672,6 +672,7 @@ function _resume (client, sync) {
     }
 
     if (!client[kHTTPContext]) {
+      client[kServerName] = request.servername
       connect(client)
       return
     }
diff --git a/test/interceptors/dns.js b/test/interceptors/dns.js
index f4acdf72277..1dfa326bc48 100644
--- a/test/interceptors/dns.js
+++ b/test/interceptors/dns.js
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 const FakeTimers = require('@sinonjs/fake-timers')
 const { test, after } = require('node:test')
-const { isIP } = require('node:net')
+const net = require('node:net')
+const { isIP } = net
 const { lookup } = require('node:dns')
 const { createServer } = require('node:http')
 const { createServer: createSecureServer } = require('node:https')
@@ -215,6 +216,63 @@ test('Should respect DNS origin hostname for SNI on TLS', async t => {
   t.equal(await response2.body.text(), 'hello world!')
 })
 
+test('#5573 - Should preserve DNS origin hostname on HTTP sockets', async context => {
+  const t = tspl(context, { plan: 5 })
+
+  const server = createServer({ joinDuplicateHeaders: true }, (req, res) => {
+    res.end('hello world!')
+  })
+
+  server.listen(0, '127.0.0.1')
+  await once(server, 'listening')
+
+  const client = new Agent().compose(dns({
+    dualStack: false,
+    lookup (_origin, _opts, cb) {
+      cb(null, [{ address: '127.0.0.1', family: 4 }])
+    }
+  }))
+
+  context.after(async () => {
+    await client.close()
+    await new Promise(resolve => server.close(resolve))
+  })
+
+  const originalConnect = net.connect
+  let connectOptions
+
+  net.connect = function (...args) {
+    connectOptions = args[0]
+    return originalConnect.apply(this, args)
+  }
+  context.after(() => {
+    net.connect = originalConnect
+  })
+
+  const response = await client.request({
+    method: 'GET',
+    path: '/',
+    origin: `http://localhost:${server.address().port}`
+  })
+
+  t.equal(response.statusCode, 200)
+  t.equal(await response.body.text(), 'hello world!')
+  t.equal(connectOptions.host, 'localhost')
+
+  await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    connectOptions.lookup(connectOptions.host, {}, (err, address, family) => {
+      if (err) {
+        reject(err)
+        return
+      }
+
+      t.equal(address, '127.0.0.1')
+      t.equal(family, 4)
+      resolve()
+    })
+  })
+})
+
 test('Should recover on network errors (dual stack - 4)', async t => {
   t = tspl(t, { plan: 7 })