Azure Private DNS

This little fella can get quite confusing when looking at all the posts and articles, but it really doesn't have to be that difficult. The private DNS thing in Azure is just basically the same as a DNS zone just like you have in your normal DNS servers. You create the zone with a specific name, tell your azure resource to use this as their private DNS zone and then tell your other DNS servers to ask Microsoft for name resolutions for that domain. A good point to note here is that the Azure resources you tell to use the private DNS zone just register their addresses to it. They don't do lookups against it. It is not their DNS lookup server. Now as with almost everything there are caveats. The big one here is that to do lookups against these zones and return the private IP address of each resource, the lookup has to come from a DNS server that is connected to an Azure VNET. If you try and get an on-premise DNS server to lookup the name it will always...