diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 968e32bbbd..73013e942a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ For more information and how-to, see [RFC: Keep A Changelog](https://github.com/
 - Support for deploying chaos-dashboard with sidecar containers in helm chart [#4164](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/4164)
 - Add `values.schema.json` [#4205](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/4205)
 - Add [`GreptimeDB`](https://greptime.com) to ADOPTERS.md [#4245](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/4245)
+- Support configurable chaos-dns-server pod affinities[#4260](https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/4260)
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/helm/chaos-mesh/templates/dns-deployment.yaml b/helm/chaos-mesh/templates/dns-deployment.yaml
index 8d9739432f..2580c6c52f 100644
--- a/helm/chaos-mesh/templates/dns-deployment.yaml
+++ b/helm/chaos-mesh/templates/dns-deployment.yaml
@@ -42,17 +42,10 @@ spec:
     {{- end }}
     spec:
       serviceAccountName: {{ .Values.dnsServer.serviceAccount }}
+      {{- with .Values.dnsServer.affinity }}
       affinity:
-        podAntiAffinity:
-          preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
-          - weight: 100
-            podAffinityTerm:
-              labelSelector:
-                matchExpressions:
-                  - key: k8s-app
-                    operator: In
-                    values: ["chaos-dns"]
-              topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
+{{ toYaml . | indent 8 }}
+      {{- end }}
       {{- with .Values.dnsServer.tolerations }}
       tolerations:
 {{ toYaml . | indent 8 }}
diff --git a/helm/chaos-mesh/values.yaml b/helm/chaos-mesh/values.yaml
index 4fdf282b3e..d69fde5b1f 100644
--- a/helm/chaos-mesh/values.yaml
+++ b/helm/chaos-mesh/values.yaml
@@ -452,6 +452,18 @@ dnsServer:
     LISTEN_HOST: "0.0.0.0"
     # The port of chaos-dns-server listen on
     LISTEN_PORT: 53
+  affinity:
+    podAntiAffinity:
+      preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
+        - podAffinityTerm:
+            labelSelector:
+              matchExpressions:
+                - key: app.kubernetes.io/component
+                  operator: In
+                  values:
+                    - chaos-dns-server
+            topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
+          weight: 100
 
 prometheus:
   # Enable prometheus
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 7ddb476e9a..4ebacada9c 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -1963,14 +1963,15 @@ spec:
       affinity:
         podAntiAffinity:
           preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
-          - weight: 100
-            podAffinityTerm:
+          - podAffinityTerm:
               labelSelector:
                 matchExpressions:
-                  - key: k8s-app
-                    operator: In
-                    values: ["chaos-dns"]
+                - key: app.kubernetes.io/component
+                  operator: In
+                  values:
+                  - chaos-dns-server
               topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
+            weight: 100
       priorityClassName: 
       containers:
       - name: chaos-dns-server