CNAME DNS records persist

Website, Application, Performance DNS & Network
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What is the name of the domain?

subnautica.wiki

What is the issue you’re encountering

Persistent CNAME records

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Deleted the old CNAME DNS Record, created new A and AAAA DNS records replacing what was being redirect to by the old CNAME DNS record.

What feature, service or problem is this related to?

DNS records

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

Create a CNAME record towards a different website, wait a few days and then remove it to have persistent records, even ones that persist well over a week.

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What was the CNAME and the new A/AAAA records?

If the CNAME was proxied it will have returned Cloudflare proxy IP addresses when queried. If you have replaced the CNAME with A/AAAA records that are also proxied, it will still return the same Cloudflare proxy IP addresses.

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Well, the CNAME record was going to the web address of Subnautica Wiki | Fandom, I replaced it with two A & two AAAA records, two for @ and two for www, and yes, they’re all proxied.

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Then the records that resolve publicly won’t change, they will still point at the same Cloudflare IP addresses, see…

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Okay, so what am I supposed to do to solve this? My domain is registered through Cloudflare.

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This is how Cloudflare works so you can’t and don’t need to do anything normally. Are you actually having a problem?

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Yes, it’s not discarding the CNAME record, it is still resolving to the address I defined in the original CNAME record. It won’t update after I’ve deleted it.

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That hostname has a rule set up to redirect to a different host https://subnautica.fandom.com/ that’s not a DNS issue. Is that the issue you’re having?

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