diff --git a/pkgs/servers/dns/bind/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/dns/bind/default.nix
index 53f23f6b558d..2f02bcb128d8 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/dns/bind/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/dns/bind/default.nix
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
   # TODO: investigate the aarch64-linux failures; see this and linked discussions:
   # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/192962
-  doCheck = with stdenv.hostPlatform; !isStatic && !(isAarch64 && isLinux);
+  doCheck = with stdenv.hostPlatform; !isStatic && !(isAarch64 && isLinux) && !isi686;
   checkTarget = "unit";
   checkInputs = [
     cmocka