diff --git a/servers/lloadd/daemon.c b/servers/lloadd/daemon.c
index e47ea567c2..841d423e64 100644
--- a/servers/lloadd/daemon.c
+++ b/servers/lloadd/daemon.c
@@ -1302,9 +1302,11 @@ lloadd_daemon( struct event_base *daemon_base )
 
     assert( daemon_base != NULL );
 
-    dnsbase = evdns_base_new( daemon_base,
-            EVDNS_BASE_INITIALIZE_NAMESERVERS |
-                    EVDNS_BASE_DISABLE_WHEN_INACTIVE );
+#ifndef EVDNS_BASE_INITIALIZE_NAMESERVERS /* libevent 2.0 support */
+#define EVDNS_BASE_INITIALIZE_NAMESERVERS 1
+#endif /* !EVDNS_BASE_INITIALIZE_NAMESERVERS */
+
+    dnsbase = evdns_base_new( daemon_base, EVDNS_BASE_INITIALIZE_NAMESERVERS );
     if ( !dnsbase ) {
         Debug( LDAP_DEBUG_ANY, "lloadd startup: "
                 "failed to set up for async name resolution\n" );
@@ -1358,7 +1360,7 @@ lloadd_daemon( struct event_base *daemon_base )
         }
     }
 
-    event = evtimer_new( daemon_base, operations_timeout, event_self_cbarg() );
+    event = evtimer_new( daemon_base, operations_timeout, NULL );
     if ( !event ) {
         Debug( LDAP_DEBUG_ANY, "lloadd: "
                 "failed to allocate timeout event\n" );
diff --git a/servers/lloadd/libevent_support.c b/servers/lloadd/libevent_support.c
index 9ba4974a47..9a70d8110a 100644
--- a/servers/lloadd/libevent_support.c
+++ b/servers/lloadd/libevent_support.c
@@ -167,5 +167,7 @@ lload_libevent_init( void )
 void
 lload_libevent_destroy( void )
 {
+#if ( EVENT__NUMERIC_VERSION >= 0x02010000 )
     libevent_global_shutdown();
+#endif
 }
diff --git a/servers/lloadd/operation.c b/servers/lloadd/operation.c
index 6564ecdfaf..1946dc6653 100644
--- a/servers/lloadd/operation.c
+++ b/servers/lloadd/operation.c
@@ -983,7 +983,6 @@ backend_timeout(
 void
 operations_timeout( evutil_socket_t s, short what, void *arg )
 {
-    struct event *self = arg;
     LloadBackend *b;
     time_t threshold;
 
@@ -1009,7 +1008,7 @@ operations_timeout( evutil_socket_t s, short what, void *arg )
 done:
     Debug( LDAP_DEBUG_TRACE, "operations_timeout: "
             "timeout task finished\n" );
-    evtimer_add( self, lload_timeout_api );
+    evtimer_add( lload_timeout_event, lload_timeout_api );
 }
 
 void