diff --git a/config/patches/ruby/ruby-win32_resolv.patch b/config/patches/ruby/ruby-win32_resolv.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b4592f2f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/patches/ruby/ruby-win32_resolv.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- ext/win32/lib/win32/resolv.rb.org 2024-03-25 19:48:15
++++ ext/win32/lib/win32/resolv.rb 2024-03-25 19:49:01
+@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
+
+ =end
+
+-require 'win32/registry'
++require 'win32/registry' unless defined?(Win32::Registry)
+
+ module Win32
+   module Resolv
diff --git a/config/software/ruby.rb b/config/software/ruby.rb
index 4b4a1ead0..57a7f55c2 100644
--- a/config/software/ruby.rb
+++ b/config/software/ruby.rb
@@ -153,6 +153,20 @@
     patch source: "ruby-win32_warning_removal.patch", plevel: 1, env: patch_env
   end
 
+  # We fixed a bug regarding Windows fqdn resolution in Ohai on the 17-stable branch.
+  # That Ohai update requires the Resolv class. The 'resolv' class unconditionally
+  # loads the Win32::Registry class as a dependency.
+  # Chef Infra already loads Win32::Registry and has a monkeypatch for the export_string method.
+  # When the Resolv class loads again in Ohai, it overwrites the monkeypatch and that
+  # leads to registry encoding/decoding errors - Base Ruby classes return text encoded in
+  # UTF-16LE format and we need UTF-8.
+  # Here we patch the Ruby Win32/Reolv.rb file to make reloading the Win32::Registry class
+  # conditional and therefore prevent the monkeypatch from being overwritten.
+  if windows? && version.satisfies?("~> 3.0.0")
+    patch source: "ruby-win32_resolv.patch", plevel: 1, env: patch_env
+  end
+
+
   # RHEL6 has a base compiler that does not support -fstack-protector-strong, but we
   # cannot build modern ruby on the RHEL6 base compiler, and the configure script
   # determines that it supports that flag and so includes it and then ultimately