I couldn't access my webpage once after I have added this into my domain network. But I can be able to access it through my mobile. Can you tell why?

Question

I have configured an Active Directory Domain Services in a VM in Azure and have established a network gateway for establishing a communication to the server and other devices. After successful configuration, I have added some of the devices to the domain. After adding them to the domain, I was trying to access a website which I wasn't able to access due to connection error. I checked everything and it turned out that DNS forwarding has not been done which was causing the website connection error. What should I do to make sure all the devices in the network can access the website?

Answer 1

Hello @PAGO Analytics,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Q&A.

Based on your issue description, I understand that you are unable to access a website due to the connection error, after adding some of the devices to the domain after successful configuration of Active Directory Domain Services in a Azure Virtual Machine.

As you have mentioned that since the DNS forwarding has not been done, you are getting the website connection error.

Please note that in this scenario to resolve this website connection error, you can create Conditional forwarders in your DNS server.

Create conditional forwarders

A conditional forwarder is a configuration option in a DNS server that lets you define a DNS domain, such as contoso.com, to forward queries to. Instead of the local DNS server trying to resolve queries for records in that domain, DNS queries are forwarded to the configured DNS for that domain. This configuration makes sure that the correct DNS records are returned, as you don't create a local a DNS zone with duplicate records in the managed domain to reflect those resources.

To create a conditional forwarder in your managed domain, complete the following steps:

1. Select your DNS zone, such as aaddscontoso.com.
2. Select Conditional Forwarders, then right-select and choose New Conditional Forwarder...
3. Enter your other DNS Domain, such as contoso.com, then enter the IP addresses of the DNS servers for that namespace, as shown in the following example:

4. Check the box for Store this conditional forwarder in Active Directory, and replicate it as follows, then select the option for All DNS servers in this domain, as shown in the following example:

Important

If the conditional forwarder is stored in the forest instead of the domain, the conditional forwarder fails.

5.To create the conditional forwarder, select OK.

For additional information, please refer to the below document for your reference.

Manage DNS for Microsoft Entra Domain Services - Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Learn

I hope this above information provided is helpful. Please feel free to reach out if you have any further questions.

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