Recently I was working with my friend to test my home lab, I gave him access to my vCenter server and he connected to my wifi network, but when he was testing IP of vCenter server he was able to connect through IP and when he was landing on to the vCenter FQDN SSO saml token page he was receiving error 404 Not Found with below message.
Sorry, this website doesn't exist (maybe you can find what you are looking for elsewhere?)
To check further I tested ping and nslookup results for vCenter IP and FQDN, they were looking good but for FQDN it was showing some online public Ip which was incorrect.
Next to resolve I checked my DNS server and, DNS server A host record entry and Pointer ptr record was exists.
Since my friend joined to my wifi, and somehow DNS server was not rechable on his device, for temparary solution We edited hosts file under C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc to add vCenter server IP address and FQDN entry to solve the issue.
Tested ping, all the results where showing good. although Nslookup was showing still wrong result because it was deriving result and fetching information from wifi dns. But it was going to work well without doing much changes.
He tested vCenter server again and all was looking good.
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