diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9995c7051d6..e8c0233bb50 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
   behavior. (Stas)
 - Added forward_static_call(_array) to complete LSB. (Mike Lively)
 - Added native support for asinh(), acosh(), atanh(), log1p() and expm1() (Kalle)
+- inet_pton() and inet_ntop() is now available on Windows platforms (Kalle)
 
 - Improved PHP runtime speed and memory usage:
   . Use IS_CV for direct access to $this variable. (Dmitry)
diff --git a/ext/standard/config.w32 b/ext/standard/config.w32
index 81352ea5e35..e1df289ca76 100644
--- a/ext/standard/config.w32
+++ b/ext/standard/config.w32
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 // $Id$
 
 ARG_WITH("config-file-scan-dir", "Dir to check for additional php ini files", "");
+
 AC_DEFINE("PHP_CONFIG_FILE_SCAN_DIR", PHP_CONFIG_FILE_SCAN_DIR);
+AC_DEFINE("HAVE_INET_PTON", 1);
+AC_DEFINE("HAVE_INET_NTOP", 1);
 
 CHECK_HEADER_ADD_INCLUDE("timelib_config.h", "CFLAGS_STANDARD", "ext/date/lib");