title: Azure SQL Private Link & Failover Group
body: <p>According to the MS Docs around private link and azure SQL failover groups, after creating private links to the primary and failover SQL server instances, subsequently creating the failover group should (I think?) add an entry to the private DNS zone so that applications can point directly to the failover group DNS, and not the original DNS entries added as per the private link process to the primary/secondary SQL servers.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-configure-failover-group?tabs=azure-portal#use-private-link" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-configure-failover-group?tabs=azure-portal#use-private-link</a></p>
  
  <p>After adding the failover group subsequent to adding private links, it does nothing to augment the private DNS zone with an entry which the applications can then use to privately consume the failover group endpoint, and the Failover group settings just show the FG DNS to connect to as per in a non-private link setup.</p>
  
  <p>What is the expected outcome after following the documentation above? How should a private linked failover group DNS be accessed? As far as I can see it leaves you still needing to access the two previously created private link DNS entries?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>