Can't set CNAME properly

Website, Application, Performance DNS & Network
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I’m getting an 525 error on my website raoulk.com

It seems like the CNAME is not loading Network Tools: DNS,IP,Email

I contacted my domain provider, and they told me to change my CNAME to _acme-challenge.raoulk.com, however, Cloudflare automatically sets it to just _acme-challenge

What can I do to set up the name servers probably and get my site online again?

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That’s normal. The dashboard doesn’t show the domain name part of the host name. It is resolving…

dig +short _acme-challenge.raoulk.com
172.67.223.182
104.21.80.147

…but to Cloudflare IP addresses so you need to set that CNAME record to “DNS only” and not “Proxied”.

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Yes. It now does this…

_acme-challenge.raoulk.com. 241	IN	CNAME	raoulk.com.acme.service.one.com.
raoulk.com.acme.service.one.com. 241 IN	CNAME	raoulk.com.acme-cust-transient.one.com.

ftp, sftp and ssh will need to be set to “DNS only” as well if you use those services since Cloudflare only proxies HTTP/HTTPS traffic.

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