diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5a498e939f3e0955d35d2ea9cf0a5e2d6c99af75..bef9e5e6e8acd5c2b07d27f9c54d0b03dcd9e8f5 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
         "winston": "0.5.6"
     },
     "devDependencies": {
-        "xml2json": "0.2.4",
+        "xml2js": "0.1.13",
         "vows": "0.5.13",
         "aws-lib": "0.0.5",
         "irc": "0.3.3"
diff --git a/scripts/deploy/dns.js b/scripts/deploy/dns.js
index effcd7d49f51814080340718981134de446ffcac..99a2f588788e117ce87958508177ec52155e4ce0 100644
--- a/scripts/deploy/dns.js
+++ b/scripts/deploy/dns.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 const
 http = require('http'),
-xml2json = require('xml2json'),
+xml2js = new (require('xml2js')).Parser(),
 jsel = require('JSONSelect');
 
 const envVar = 'BROWSERID_DEPLOY_DNS_KEY';
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ function doRequest(method, path, body, cb) {
       buf += chunk;
     });
     r.on('end', function() {
-      cb(null, JSON.parse(xml2json.toJson(buf)));
+      xml2js.parseString(buf, cb);
     });
   });
   if (body) req.write(body);
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ function doRequest(method, path, body, cb) {
 exports.updateRecord = function (hostname, zone, ip, cb) {
   doRequest('GET', '/api/1.1/zones.xml', null, function(err, r) {
     if (err) return cb(err);
-    var m = jsel.match('object:has(:root > .domain:val(?)) > .id .$t',
+    var m = jsel.match('object:has(:root > .domain:val(?)) > .id .#',
                        [ zone ], r);
     if (m.length != 1) return cb("couldn't extract domain id from zerigo"); 
     var path = '/api/1.1/hosts.xml?zone_id=' + m[0];
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ exports.updateRecord = function (hostname, zone, ip, cb) {
 exports.deleteRecord = function (hostname, cb) {
   doRequest('GET', '/api/1.1/hosts.xml?fqdn=' + hostname, null, function(err, r) {
     if (err) return cb(err);
-    var m = jsel.match('.host .id > .$t', r);
+    var m = jsel.match('.host .id > .#', r);
     if (!m.length) return cb("no such DNS record");
     function deleteOne() {
       if (!m.length) return cb(null);
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ exports.deleteRecord = function (hostname, cb) {
 exports.inUse = function (hostname, cb) {
   doRequest('GET', '/api/1.1/hosts.xml?fqdn=' + hostname, null, function(err, r) {
     if (err) return cb(err);
-    var m = jsel.match('.hosts object:.host', r);
+    var m = jsel.match('.host', r);
     // we shouldn't have multiple!  oops!  let's return the first one
     if (m.length) return cb(null, m[0]);
     cb(null, null);