cname not shown in nslookup after adding cname
hi guys,
i have add a cname and the url is working, but cname is not shown in nslookup
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DNS over Discord: A records
gildedsyndicate.com A @1.1.1.1 +noall +answer
diggy diggy hole
DNS over Discord: CNAME records
gildedsyndicate.com CNAME @1.1.1.1 +noall +answer +short
No records founddiggy diggy hole
When a record is proxied, you're telling Cloudflare to be in the middle and proxy requests to your origin. Cloudflare takes over the record and responds with A/AAAA Queries with their IPs, and then internally resolves the CNAME on each request
Additionally having a CNAME on your apex (gildedsyndicate.com) is against DNS Spec, so even without Proxy Cloudflare would flatten that down to the A/AAAA IPs returned by your cname target to comply with spec.
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@Chaika thanks, i deleted the cname and add a A record to the coresponding IP.
works. URL acsasable, but no CMANE in NSLookup. did i miss something?
Did you see what I said above?
If it's proxied at all you'll never see the raw cname
and if it's on apex, even unproxied, you wouldn't see a raw cname there. You also wouldn't see one for an A record
What are you trying to do?
CNAME is a "Canonical Redirect", a type of DNS Record that is basically saying "all dns queries go here to resolve your type". It's not necessary to have a website working or anything
ok, let me explain what i do. i
They probably just want you to disable proxy on the record (Edit -> Proxied to DNS only)
Proxy is Cloudflare's CDN, which usually gets in the way of verification and such. I assume they're just looking for the IPs of the CNAME.
the question is, how should i make the cname visble then
Don't worry about that part, I would just keep it unproxied and recheck in a bit
if they strictly need the cname visible on gildedsynidicate.com it's impossible as it's literally against the DNS Specification. You need to have other records (ex: SOA) on root, so a CNAME cannot exist there. So they shouldn't want/need that
ok, understood and thanks a lot for your help
i will forward that