DNS only working when records are set to "DNS Only", not when set to "Proxy Enabled

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

sanmai.tech

What is the issue you’re encountering

DNS only working when records are set to “DNS Only”, not when set to "Proxy Enabled

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

We delegated our nameservers to Cloudflare over 48 hours ago, but I’m discovering that unless my records (A, CNAME, etc.) are set to “DNS Only” instead of Proxy Enabled. If I set the records to Proxy Enabled, the publicly propagated records show as being from our legacy cached hostfile. If I set the records to DNS Only, the change propagates globally almost immediately and the correct IP to hostnames are resolved.

Why would enabling Proxy be ‘breaking’ my zonefile entries?

What feature, service or problem is this related to?

DNS not responding/updating

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When you enable the proxy, Cloudflare publishes it’s own proxy IP addresses instead of your IPs.

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So does that mean that even if the public DNS resolution doesn’t match what I have in my Cloudflare zone file, the proxying caches will still route the traffic accordingly to the A, CNAME, MX, etc. records that I have set in Cloudflare?

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Yes, but only for HTTP traffic.

No. The proxy only proxies HTTP(S) connections. Records used for anything else must be DNS-Only.

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