Hello, please help me understand this. I have signed up for a free account to try the Cloudflare website protection features for our company website. I am using my current registrar for DNS and the instructions state I need to change the nameservers at existing registrar to Cloudflares nameservers. Does this mean that going forward I need to use Cloudflare to manage our domain DNS for all records such as MX records? They all have to be transferred to Cloudflare? I was hoping to use Cloudflare website protection for 1 website and not have to transfer all our existing records. Please explain. Thanks.
fritex
March 11, 2023, 11:50pm
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Greetings,
Thank you for asking.
Short answer, yes.
Great tutorial about getting started here:
This tutorial covers creating a Cloudflare account, adding a domain, changing nameservers and checking imported DNS records.
dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up , enter your Email and create a password, read the terms and notices and click ‘Create Account’
[Sign-Up Page]
Helpful step-by-step tutorial how to add a new DNS record or edit existing at Cloudflare:
This tutorial covers adding general DNS records and specifically A, AAAA, CNAME , MX and TXT records.
Go to the DNS app of your Cloudflare dashboard.
Enter your credentials and click ‘Log In’
Click the domain in question
Click [image]
[Please note, the content of the records below are solely for example purposes and should be replaced by valid records with content provided by your web host]
Please select which record you need help adding:
A Record <a class="lightbox" href="…
This tutorial covers editing DNS records.
Go to the DNS app of your Cloudflare dashboard.
Enter your credentials and click ‘Log In’
Click the domain in question
On this page, you will see a list of the DNS records for your domain. This page is where you edit them.
You will see the list of records like this:
[DNS Page]
You can click the edit button to the right of any record to change it, then click ‘save’ when you’re done.
There is also a tutorial on Adding DNS Records
Tutorial Refer…
Other way would it be to import the DNS records from a file, if we have them exported from some hosting provider’s interface.
Otherwise, manually each of the DNS record, or maybe via some script combining Cloudflare API and/or Terraform
You can use a partial setup on a Business plan or higher.
