I can ping the DC, Domain, IP, but cannot join the domain

Question

So, setting up a brand new domain for the very first time (never set up a brand brand new domain) of Azure boxes (but not AAD - using traditional AD over Azure) trying to get these boxes to communicate has taken me literal days and I am getting very frustrated at these.

DC is VT-EDD-Server Domain is VT-EDD.local Client is VT-EDD-IIS1 (I'll have others, but once this is fixed I'll have this solved)

Not sure if I even NEEDED to, but I added the IP for the DC and domain to the client's host file, and now I can ping the server. I have also updated the client's DNS to:

and when I still try to join the domain I get

The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service location (SRV) resource record used to locate an Active Directory Domain Controller (AD DC) for domain "VTT-EDD.local":

The error was: "DNS name does not exist."
(error code 0x0000232B RCODE_NAME_ERROR)

The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.VTT-EDD.local

Common causes of this error include the following:

- The DNS SRV records required to locate a AD DC for the domain are not registered in DNS. These records are registered with a DNS server automatically when a AD DC is added to a domain. They are updated by the AD DC at set intervals. This computer is configured to use DNS servers with the following IP addresses:

168.63.129.16

- One or more of the following zones do not include delegation to its child zone:

VTT-EDD.local
local
. (the root zone)

I can ping both the DC and the domain by name and IP, but can't join it.

Answer 1

After creating a ADDC in azure, joining the server to it, and adding the DC's IP to the DNS in Azure, I was able to complete the process.