Different nameservers for different zones
Hi, since Cloudflare name servers are a way to uniquely identify an account, and it is possible to identify all domains under the account by simply seeing which domains have the same set of 2 name servers, is it possible to switch up the name servers for each new zone for enhanced privacy?
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Cloudflare name servers are a way to uniquely identify an accountehh, it's not like only your account has those two nameservers. They're not unique unique, although perhaps unique/rare enough to identify a pattern (side note: if there ever happened to be a collision with another cf account already having the zone added with overlapping ns's, it'd just pick two more different)
is it possible to switch up the name servers for each new zone for enhanced privacy?Sure, just preset your two normal ones at your registrar, wait a bit, add the website to Cloudflare, and you'll get two random other ones that you should then change your domain to at your registrar
I’ve tried that before too, it results in the account having 2 sets of name servers but if you have 10 zones, all 10 will be one of those 2 sets of nameservers
Didn’t realize it wasn’t globally unique though, although it certainly seems that way! But either way, uncommon enough to have a collision
yea it's not like they create two for every user or something, there's just about 1k iirc, which means it'll feel very unique if you're only looking at a small set