diff --git a/testing/scripts/build-baseimage b/testing/scripts/build-baseimage
index 50d2aa5a3..a96f01f8f 100755
--- a/testing/scripts/build-baseimage
+++ b/testing/scripts/build-baseimage
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ INC=$INC,gnat,gprbuild,acpid,acpi-support-base,libldns-dev,libunbound-dev
 INC=$INC,dnsutils,libsoup2.4-dev,ca-certificates,unzip,libsystemd-dev
 INC=$INC,python3,python3-setuptools,python3-build,python3-dev,python3-daemon,python3-venv,
 INC=$INC,apt-transport-https,libjson-c-dev,libxslt1-dev,libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3
-INC=$INC,libxerces-c-dev,rsyslog
+INC=$INC,libxerces-c-dev,rsyslog,ncat,socat
 case "$BASEIMGSUITE" in
 buster)
 	INC=$INC,iptables-dev