diff --git a/cassandane/Cassandane/GenericDaemon.pm b/cassandane/Cassandane/GenericDaemon.pm
index ab9dc309d8..a8de382b9a 100644
--- a/cassandane/Cassandane/GenericDaemon.pm
+++ b/cassandane/Cassandane/GenericDaemon.pm
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ sub _is_listening_af
     my ($self, $af) = @_;
 
     my @cmd = (
-        'netstat',
+        (-e "/mnt/c/Windows/system32/netstat.exe") ? './utils/fakenetstat' : 'netstat',
         '-l',           # listening ports only
         '-n',           # numeric output
         );
diff --git a/cassandane/utils/fakenetstat b/cassandane/utils/fakenetstat
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..b255301286
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cassandane/utils/fakenetstat
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/mnt/c/Windows/system32/netstat.exe -an | sed -e 's/LISTENING/LISTEN/' -e 's/  TCP/tcp 0 0/'