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•Created by Aravindh Sridhar on 4/1/2025 in #general-help

DNS Issues

You'd need to provide more info. What's the domain, in what way does it not work (if it's a dns record not updating, which record/what should it show, etc?)

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CDCloudflare Developers

•Created by Corbie on 3/28/2025 in #general-help

Some emails working, some blocked

of course, yea the dns side looks fine now, depending on how you transferred the quick scan can mess stuff up, or importing only lets you import as proxied/unproxied full, so hard to do a perfect import/export. Mail servers have dns cache and such, will take a bit for them to see the change, but this would stop the issue with some mail servers seeing the mx target hostname as invalid

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CDCloudflare Developers

•Created by Corbie on 3/28/2025 in #general-help

Some emails working, some blocked

yea, like that

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CDCloudflare Developers

•Created by Corbie on 3/28/2025 in #general-help

Some emails working, some blocked

target is good but the name should just be @ or patrickhildreth.com

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CDCloudflare Developers

•Created by Corbie on 3/28/2025 in #general-help

Some emails working, some blocked

You can just point your MX record at mail.patrickhildreth.com

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CDCloudflare Developers

•Created by Corbie on 3/28/2025 in #general-help

Some emails working, some blocked

;; QUESTION SECTION: ;patrickhildreth.com. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: patrickhildreth.com. 288 IN MX 0 _dc-mx.728888fc6df9.patrickhildreth.com.

Your MX record is pointing at a proxied record in Cloudflare. Cloudflare can't proxy mail traffic with the normal proxy, so it assigns it a virtual hostname like that but it doesn't work with all mail servers. There used to be a warning in the dashboard for this, not sure if there is now, but eitherway you'll want to unproxy the hostname your MX record points to (if it points to mail subdomain or something and you still want the normal http proxy on there, could make a new unproxied subdomain like mail-delivery and point to that).

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CDCloudflare Developers

•Created by joshiwa on 3/27/2025 in #general-help

Transfer process help

Cloudflare Registrar only lets you use Cloudflare nameservers (reason why they can provide it at cost), so the requirement for setting it up in Cloudflare first exists to align sites with that

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CDCloudflare Developers

•Created by Mkhoroshev on 3/27/2025 in #general-help

"Unique visitors"

It's all available in Cloudflare's GraphQL: https://developers.cloudflare.com/analytics/graphql-api/, free has limited data sets but still same access as dashboard:

{
  viewer {
    zones(filter: {zoneTag: "9567bec24f829a157d29bdc665fda742"}) {
      httpRequests1dGroups(filter: { date_gt: "2025-03-01"}, orderBy: [ date_DESC ], limit: 10000) {

        dimensions {
          date
        }
        sum {
          requests
        }
        uniq {
          uniques
        }

      }
    }
  }
}

{
  viewer {
    zones(filter: {zoneTag: "9567bec24f829a157d29bdc665fda742"}) {
      httpRequests1dGroups(filter: { date_gt: "2025-03-01"}, orderBy: [ date_DESC ], limit: 10000) {

        dimensions {
          date
        }
        sum {
          requests
        }
        uniq {
          uniques
        }

      }
    }
  }
}

uniques = unique ips, same as unique visitors, and you'd get a response with data like

           {
              "dimensions": {
                "date": "2025-03-03"
              },
              "sum": {
                "requests": 1542
              },
              "uniq": {
                "uniques": 41
              }
            },

           {
              "dimensions": {
                "date": "2025-03-03"
              },
              "sum": {
                "requests": 1542
              },
              "uniq": {
                "uniques": 41
              }
            },

(more fields then that too of course, if you use a graphql client with introspection you can see the full schema)

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CDCloudflare Developers

•Created by Corbie on 3/28/2025 in #general-help

Some emails working, some blocked

DNSSEC being improperly setup is a common cause of records partially resolving, and can easily be misconfigured after a move. If you're using external mail servers and verified all records got copied over fine, it's one of the few things that would come to mind. Can you share the domain name?

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CDCloudflare Developers

•Created by Drek on 3/27/2025 in #general-help

DNS Nameserver

Is it possible for me to just copy the current DNS I have from Cloudflare and use it in the future?

If you don't have access to the account, you can't export the full records. If you have proxy enabled on anything, you'd just get Cf IPs from an external point of view, and any sort of external scraper will miss stuff. But you can certainly make a new cf acct, readd it, and recreate the records the best you can

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CDCloudflare Developers

•Created by Drek on 3/27/2025 in #general-help

DNS Nameserver

If you lost access to the email, login-help can let you specify a new one to receive stuff on. If you forgot the email, forgot-email accepts domains. You'd have to have lost a lot to lose it completely

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CDCloudflare Developers

•Created by Drek on 3/27/2025 in #general-help

DNS Nameserver

?login-help

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CDCloudflare Developers

•Created by Melantrix on 3/27/2025 in #workers-help

Receiving ratelimit errors, while not hitting rate limits.

Discord uses Cloudflare, and uses Cloudflare rate limiting. It's been a known issue for a bit they rate limit Cloudflare Workers IPs a bit too aggressively, need retries

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