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Trying to host website on Vercel, added the A record and CNAME, but the CNAME is not propagating. Vercel says “Your DNS records are set up correctly, but it can take some time for them to propagate globally.”
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A naked domain can never be a CNAME entry, by design. This will always be flattened into an A entry. If you need a CNAME entry, you need a proper hostname.
Sorry, im not following. could you please elaborate?
The naked domain will never resolve to a CNAME entry.
DNS Checker - DNS Check Propagation Tool resolves.
vercel adds the “www” automatically, that is why it is naked.
If you want www to resolve to a CNAME entry, you also need to make sure it is not proxied.
how can i make sure of that
so just to double check, i should have them be “DNS Only”? instead of proixed?
Yes, for the CNAME entry to resolve.
okay, so should i give it another couple hours to propagate or would it be a quick process?
Cloudflare will immediately change the resolution, how quickly your DNS resolver does that depends on the service provider.
alright, thank you for your help. really appreciate it
Pleasure
hi, my domain still has not connected, I’m resorting to connecting it through nameservers, but I’d still like to understand what the problem is and if possible fix the problem.
You haven’t followed the advice yet and the configuration is still unchanged.
sorry, I don’t understand what I’ve missed. You told me to change the records from “Proxied” to “DNS Only”, which I’ve done. In terms of the naked domain, vercel reroutes it to www automatically. I’ve attached a screenshot of the vercel domain dashboard.
www is still proxied → DNS Checker - DNS Check Propagation Tool
im not sure why that is, maybe it needs more time to propagate i guess?
No, this is not a propagation issue. Post a screenshot of your DNS page.
