Windows Defender Firewall on Windows 11: How to allow a specific host name through in Public settings.

[Ray Pooley1]

Hi folksI have been struggling with this for a few days now. Worked fine on Windows 10 and previous versions.Had a boot drive crash so I can't access the previous machine because it is corruptedI have a number of external DNS hostnames eg: myhost1.mydomain.org, myhost2.mydomain.org, myhost3.mydomain.org etc.The target sites are running fine under IIS 10 when I browse them in IIS localhost.When I try to access them via their DNS hostnames I can only do so if I turn OFF the Windows Defender Firewall under Public network settings.I obviously don't want to leave WDF Public turned off so what I nee

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