diff --git a/Lib/socketserver.py b/Lib/socketserver.py
index 70fdd6c8610..4f8a5950c99 100644
--- a/Lib/socketserver.py
+++ b/Lib/socketserver.py
@@ -134,10 +134,12 @@ except ImportError:
     import dummy_threading as threading
 from time import monotonic as time
 
-__all__ = ["BaseServer", "TCPServer", "UDPServer", "ForkingUDPServer",
-           "ForkingTCPServer", "ThreadingUDPServer", "ThreadingTCPServer",
+__all__ = ["BaseServer", "TCPServer", "UDPServer",
+           "ThreadingUDPServer", "ThreadingTCPServer",
            "BaseRequestHandler", "StreamRequestHandler",
-           "DatagramRequestHandler", "ThreadingMixIn", "ForkingMixIn"]
+           "DatagramRequestHandler", "ThreadingMixIn"]
+if hasattr(os, "fork"):
+    __all__.extend(["ForkingUDPServer","ForkingTCPServer", "ForkingMixIn"])
 if hasattr(socket, "AF_UNIX"):
     __all__.extend(["UnixStreamServer","UnixDatagramServer",
                     "ThreadingUnixStreamServer",
@@ -537,7 +539,9 @@ class UDPServer(TCPServer):
         # No need to close anything.
         pass
 
-class ForkingMixIn:
+if hasattr(os, "fork"):
+  # Non-standard indentation on this statement to avoid reindenting the body.
+  class ForkingMixIn:
 
     """Mix-in class to handle each request in a new process."""
 
@@ -647,8 +651,9 @@ class ThreadingMixIn:
         t.start()
 
 
-class ForkingUDPServer(ForkingMixIn, UDPServer): pass
-class ForkingTCPServer(ForkingMixIn, TCPServer): pass
+if hasattr(os, "fork"):
+    class ForkingUDPServer(ForkingMixIn, UDPServer): pass
+    class ForkingTCPServer(ForkingMixIn, TCPServer): pass
 
 class ThreadingUDPServer(ThreadingMixIn, UDPServer): pass
 class ThreadingTCPServer(ThreadingMixIn, TCPServer): pass
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f07dff4ea20..1a1a8c78733 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #25931: Don't defining socketserver.Forking* names on platforms such
+  as Windows that do not support os.fork().
+
 - Issue #21776: distutils.upload now correctly handles HTTPError.
   Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.