diff --git a/docs/source/driver.rst b/docs/source/driver.rst
index 10743abe4..4df88ea8d 100644
--- a/docs/source/driver.rst
+++ b/docs/source/driver.rst
@@ -144,6 +144,25 @@ The maximum time to allow for retries to be attempted when using transaction fun
 After this time, no more retries will be attempted.
 This setting does not terminate running queries.
 
+``resolver``
+------------
+
+A custom resolver function to resolve host and port values ahead of DNS resolution.
+This function is called with a 2-tuple of (host, port) and should return an iterable of tuples as would be returned from ``getaddrinfo``.
+If no custom resolver function is supplied, the internal resolver moves straight to regular DNS resolution.
+
+For example::
+
+    def my_resolver(socket_address):
+         if socket_address == ("foo", 9999):
+            yield "::1", 7687
+            yield "127.0.0.1", 7687
+         else:
+            from socket import gaierror
+            raise gaierror("Unexpected socket address %r" % socket_address)
+
+     driver = GraphDatabase.driver("bolt+routing://foo:9999", auth=("neo4j", "password"), resolver=my_resolver)
+
 
 
 Object Lifetime
diff --git a/neo4j/addressing.py b/neo4j/addressing.py
index 5ada9b8e6..88af80dd8 100644
--- a/neo4j/addressing.py
+++ b/neo4j/addressing.py
@@ -21,14 +21,9 @@
 from collections import namedtuple
 from socket import getaddrinfo, gaierror, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP
 
-from neo4j.compat import urlparse
+from neo4j.compat import urlparse, parse_qs
 from neo4j.exceptions import AddressError
 
-try:
-    from urllib.parse import parse_qs
-except ImportError:
-    from urlparse import parse_qs
-
 
 VALID_IPv4_SEGMENTS = [str(i).encode("latin1") for i in range(0x100)]
 VALID_IPv6_SEGMENT_CHARS = b"0123456789abcdef"
@@ -102,17 +97,46 @@ def parse_routing_context(cls, uri):
         return context
 
 
-def resolve(socket_address):
-    try:
-        info = getaddrinfo(socket_address[0], socket_address[1], 0, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP)
-    except gaierror:
-        raise AddressError("Cannot resolve address {!r}".format(socket_address[0]))
-    else:
-        addresses = []
-        for _, _, _, _, address in info:
-            if len(address) == 4 and address[3] != 0:
-                # skip any IPv6 addresses with a non-zero scope id
-                # as these appear to cause problems on some platforms
-                continue
-            addresses.append(address)
-        return addresses
+class Resolver(object):
+    """ A Resolver instance stores a list of addresses, each in a tuple, and
+    provides methods to perform resolution on these, thereby replacing them
+    with the resolved values.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, custom_resolver=None):
+        self.addresses = []
+        self.custom_resolver = custom_resolver
+
+    def custom_resolve(self):
+        """ If a custom resolver is defined, perform custom resolution on
+        the contained addresses.
+
+        :return:
+        """
+        if not callable(self.custom_resolver):
+            return
+        new_addresses = []
+        for address in self.addresses:
+            for new_address in self.custom_resolver(address):
+                new_addresses.append(new_address)
+        self.addresses = new_addresses
+
+    def dns_resolve(self):
+        """ Perform DNS resolution on the contained addresses.
+
+        :return:
+        """
+        new_addresses = []
+        for address in self.addresses:
+            try:
+                info = getaddrinfo(address[0], address[1], 0, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP)
+            except gaierror:
+                raise AddressError("Cannot resolve address {!r}".format(address))
+            else:
+                for _, _, _, _, address in info:
+                    if len(address) == 4 and address[3] != 0:
+                        # skip any IPv6 addresses with a non-zero scope id
+                        # as these appear to cause problems on some platforms
+                        continue
+                    new_addresses.append(address)
+        self.addresses = new_addresses
diff --git a/neo4j/bolt/connection.py b/neo4j/bolt/connection.py
index 3c4b77d51..21ce86521 100644
--- a/neo4j/bolt/connection.py
+++ b/neo4j/bolt/connection.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 from struct import pack as struct_pack, unpack as struct_unpack
 from threading import RLock, Condition
 
-from neo4j.addressing import SocketAddress, resolve
+from neo4j.addressing import SocketAddress, Resolver
 from neo4j.bolt.cert import KNOWN_HOSTS
 from neo4j.bolt.response import InitResponse, AckFailureResponse, ResetResponse
 from neo4j.compat.ssl import SSL_AVAILABLE, HAS_SNI, SSLError
@@ -685,12 +685,16 @@ def connect(address, ssl_context=None, error_handler=None, **config):
     a protocol version can be agreed.
     """
 
+    last_error = None
     # Establish a connection to the host and port specified
     # Catches refused connections see:
     # https://docs.python.org/2/library/errno.html
     log_debug("~~ [RESOLVE] %s", address)
-    last_error = None
-    for resolved_address in resolve(address):
+    resolver = Resolver(custom_resolver=config.get("resolver"))
+    resolver.addresses.append(address)
+    resolver.custom_resolve()
+    resolver.dns_resolve()
+    for resolved_address in resolver.addresses:
         log_debug("~~ [RESOLVED] %s -> %s", address, resolved_address)
         try:
             s = _connect(resolved_address, **config)
diff --git a/neo4j/compat/__init__.py b/neo4j/compat/__init__.py
index 2a49a2d03..c175c49aa 100644
--- a/neo4j/compat/__init__.py
+++ b/neo4j/compat/__init__.py
@@ -122,6 +122,6 @@ def perf_counter():
 
 # The location of urlparse varies between Python 2 and 3
 try:
-    from urllib.parse import urlparse
+    from urllib.parse import urlparse, parse_qs
 except ImportError:
-    from urlparse import urlparse
+    from urlparse import urlparse, parse_qs
diff --git a/test/integration/test_driver.py b/test/integration/test_driver.py
index f921ea57e..3c29eeab4 100644
--- a/test/integration/test_driver.py
+++ b/test/integration/test_driver.py
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 
-from neo4j.v1 import GraphDatabase, ServiceUnavailable
+from neo4j.bolt import DEFAULT_PORT
+from neo4j.v1 import GraphDatabase, Driver, ServiceUnavailable
 from test.integration.tools import IntegrationTestCase
 
 
@@ -43,3 +44,15 @@ def test_fail_nicely_when_using_http_port(self):
         with self.assertRaises(ServiceUnavailable):
             with GraphDatabase.driver(uri, auth=self.auth_token, encrypted=False):
                 pass
+
+    def test_custom_resolver(self):
+
+        def my_resolver(socket_address):
+            self.assertEqual(socket_address, ("*", DEFAULT_PORT))
+            yield "99.99.99.99", self.bolt_port     # this should be rejected as unable to connect
+            yield "127.0.0.1", self.bolt_port       # this should succeed
+
+        with Driver("bolt://*", auth=self.auth_token, resolver=my_resolver) as driver:
+            with driver.session() as session:
+                summary = session.run("RETURN 1").summary()
+                self.assertEqual(summary.server.address, ("127.0.0.1", 7687))