Policy

Allow NetBT queries for fully qualified domain names

Specifies that NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) queries are issued for fully qualified domain names. If you enable this policy setting, NetBT queries will be issued for multi-label and fully qualified domain names such as "www.example.com" in addition to single-label names. If you disable this policy setting, or if you do not configure this policy setting, NetBT queries will only be issued for single-label names such as "example" and not for multi-label and fully qualified domain names.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Network / DNS Client
Policy ID 598b9730a5e1
Internal name DNS_AllowFQDNNetBiosQueries

Registry

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HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\DNSClient\QueryNetBTFQDN (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\DNSClient\QueryNetBTFQDN (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

Specifies that NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) queries are issued for fully qualified domain names. If you enable this policy setting, NetBT queries will be issued for multi-label and fully qualified domain names such as "www.example.com" in addition to single-label names. If you disable this policy setting, or if you do not configure this policy setting, NetBT queries will only be issued for single-label names such as "example" and not for multi-label and fully qualified domain names.

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