All the records I need to create in cloudflare

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#1

Hi,

Anyhelp will be highly appreciated!

I want to use zDOTcom hosting services.

their name servers are as follows;

• Nameserver 1: ns-a1.cloud.z.com
• Nameserver 2: ns-a2.cloud.z.com
• Nameserver 3: ns-a3.cloud.z.com

I need to understand what all records I need to create in Cloudflare, so as to get my wordpress website up and running on the zDOTcom servers.

At the moment there are absolutely no recods on Cloudflare.

Thanks!

#2

If they have a DNS records page, you’d have to make sure all those records exist here as well.

Generally, when you add a site to Cloudflare, Cloudflare will guess at thousands of possible hostnames to see if your current DNS has them, then add them here automatically.

#3

IP address resolution (at least one required for each domain)

A and AAAA

Purpose : A and AAAA Records direct browser requests to an origin web server (A for IPv4 addresses and AAAA for IPv6 addresses).

Fields :

  • Name: A subdomain or the root domain, which must:
    • Be 63 characters or less
    • Start with a letter and end with a letter or digit
    • Only contain letters, digits, or hyphens (underscores are allowed but discouraged in A and CNAME records)
  • IPv4/IPv6 address : Your origin web server address (cannot be a Cloudflare IP)
  • TTL : Time to live (only available if traffic is not proxied through Cloudflare)
  • Proxy status : Select the cloud icon to change proxy status. If your record is proxied, that means that Cloudflare is:
    • Hiding the origin IP address from attackers
    • Caching
    • Storing an HTTPS certificate on its edge servers
    • Providing support for Page Rules, Caching, Firewall, and more

Notes :

If you want to sustainably spread traffic across multiple domains, check out Cloudflare Load Balancing.

Though you could spread traffic with multiple A or AAAA records — because Cloudflare alternates requests based on each record — this approach might send your traffic to unreachable IP addresses. Load balancing provides a much more reliable solution.

CNAME

Purpose :

CNAME records direct browser requests to an origin web server, but — unlike an A or AAA record — do so via a hostname like www.example.com instead of an IP address .

Fields :

  • Name: A subdomain or the root domain, which must:
    • Be 63 characters or less
    • Start with a letter and end with a letter or digit
    • Only contain letters, digits, or hyphens (underscores allowed but discouraged)
  • Target : The hostname where traffic should be directed
  • TTL : Time to live (only available if traffic is not proxied through Cloudflare)
  • Proxy status : Select the cloud icon to change proxy status. If your record is proxied, that means that Cloudflare is:
    • Hiding the origin IP address from attackers
    • Caching
    • Storing an HTTPS certificate on its edge servers
    • Providing support for Page Rules, Caching, Firewall, and more

Notes :

You can use CNAME records to point to other CNAME records ( www.example2.com → www.example1.com → www.example.com ), but the final record must point to a hostname with a valid IP address (and therefore a valid A or AAAA record).

To find a full list of DNS records (and what they do) visit https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019093151-Managing-DNS-records-in-Cloudflare

#4

In addition, you need to change the nameservers to the Cloudflare provided nameservers for help on doing that visit https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/205195708-Changing-your-domain-nameservers-to-Cloudflare

#5

Thanks for help.

I bought this domain from Cloudflare. Usually with godaddy or other providers I would simply point the nameservers to hosting provider’s and job done!

Here I do not understand the records I need to create what their purpose are and exactly what to fill in those records.

If you can please help me identify the kind of record(s) I need to create (only for DNS).
And what vaues to fill.

#6

Only they (zDOT) can tell you which DNS records you need.

#7

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