Dns issues es with long time site

Website, Application, Performance DNS & Network
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Thank you Epic, so kind of you to answer so promptly.

Sadly I use the poor mans tier as I’m still in a trial phase.

My problem at present is my website is not working. Nothing has changed in many months.

As a precaution, I deleted the domain from Cloudflare, I then went to my domain and reset the DNS. It continued not to work, so I rang my registrar/hosting company. They said Cloudflare still have DNS control and that I need to contact them.

I find this confusing, if I have deleted the domain from my Cloudflare account.

I have since re-added it, in an attempt to resolve, but I haven’t found it helpful so far.

I used the diagnostic centre facility and it said errors were found with:

  • Check DNSEC Configuration.
  • Check DS record configuration
  • Check for redirect loops
  • Check the HTTPS status
  • Check if redirecting unencrypted HTTP traffic works
  • Check the status of encrypted traffic
  • Check the site for mixed content
  • Check site speed (TTFB)

This is for a website built with html and php.

Thanks in advance and thank you very much for reading this.

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I think that your issue is that your server SSL certificate has just expired. Could you disable (stop) Cloudflare and see if SSL works?

Hope it helps!

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Thanks @Lumito , I’ll give it a try! I keep thinking that I got a free SSL Cert from Cloudflare. I’ve now bought unlimited SSL’s from my registrar/hosting company, but I’m not able to apply it all the while Cloudflare is locked onto my domain :frowning:

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@chrisa Hello there,

It looks like you’ve not yet updated the NS records in your domain registrar / host. When you update, that’ll be alright!

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Thanks Neil! Because I need the website to be up and running again, I’ve taken the precaution of removing the domain from Cloudflare. Just need to wait for the usual propagation, then I can have income again, which is nice :slight_smile:

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I understand your trouble. Okay, if you’ve removed the site from Cloudflare. But, you’ve not removed the Cloudflare NS records from your domain registrar / host. Please check again. Fix this. Your website propagation is almost complete. Check it here:

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In the future, you will be better served by not removing Cloudflare nameservers. Doing so only adds unnecessary delays to any efforts you are undertaking to troubleshoot and restore a service disruption.

You can bypass the Cloudflare proxy and route traffic directly to your origin server in five minutes or less by simply toggling the DNS record from :orange: to :grey:. If you need to quickly bypass Cloudflare for all records in your DNS zone, you can simply Pause Cloudflare.

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Thank you again Neil, I genuinely appreciate your voluntary help :+1:

I have defaulted the DNS with the registrar / host.

Here are the records, not sure if I needed to redact

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dns1076×715 30.2 KB

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Completely agree, unfortunately panic set in and I just wanted the website to work.

I did have another domain with Cloudflare, that had SSL as part of Cloudflare. I removed that from the Cloudflare account, reset the DNS to default within the registrar/hosting, provided a new SSL Cert and it was all done within 10 minutes. I don’t understand why I’m having so much trouble with an actual important domain, sods law.

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Isn’t it fixed yet?

I do not see any NS records. If you’ve done that, then it should work

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Clear the browser cache files n give it a go.

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Not as yet.

I think the issue is no SSL possibly. Unfortunately when I go to my registrar/hosting and attempt to apply an SSL Cert, I get this:

Operation Incomplete

The SSL certificate can only be used for domains that are using 1&1 IONOS name servers. To set 1&1 IONOS name servers for this domain, select ‘Use 1&1 IONOS Name Servers’ in the ‘DNS Settings’ section.

I haven’t done that, but I have tried the site on different browsers and different devices. I used my mobile and mobile data and still no joy sadly.

Thank you again for persevering with me.

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Please have a glance here:

You wont’ be able to fix unless you update the NS records in your registrar

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I did check that (and thank you for that), but it still doesn’t appear here (UK).

Just to clarify, the Name servers were reset around 4 hours ago. I haven’t done anything with the individual records as yet, in case I deleted/amended the wrong detail.

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Is it from the same panel?

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It is also possible that nameserver is taking time to update. You may have to wait for couple of hours and try!

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It is indeed.

I can only assume that’s the case…or hope, rather!

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I have to say, what is curious is that I have another domain with what was exactly the same config (with Cloudflare) that is running without issue.

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It’s rare but it could take up to 24-48h for the nameservers to update globally.

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Yes I have had that before, like you say, it is rare.

I did try to enable DNSSEC (only available on IONOS) and it didn’t accept that and threw up an error.