What feature, service or problem is this related to?
DNS records
What are the steps to reproduce the issue?
Trying to move DNS to Cloudflare. Cloudflare autocreated entries from the old DNS host.
But Cloudflare(CF) shows me friendly names how do I see the real name or the real DNS records.
For instance I see the following differences
Trailing dots removed : The original record had names ending with a dot. But CF has converted them to names without a dot. So abc.com. (with a trailing dot) has become abc.com (without a trailing dot)
Names shortened: ftp.abc.com. has been converted to ftp similarly xxx.yyy.abc.com. has become xxx.yyy
Before nameservers are changed at registrar I would like to confirm if all the entries in CF match the source. Is there a way to do that?
Hi, thanks for the suggestions. I exported the records and checked each of them to the source records.
I see that the A records match exactly.
The MX, CNAME and SRV records have extra trailing dots in the content field.
for instance original MX record = 0 mail.abc.com
CF MX record = 0 mail.abc.com. (note the trailing dot)
similar issue with other CNAME and SRV records that is all the domain names have an extra trailing dot on the Cloudflare settings.
In addition i found 2 TXT records mismatch.
looks like the source records keep changing for these
1 is
_acme-challenge.abc.com. and another
_cpanel-dcv-test-record.abc.com.
The records seem to have changed at the source for these… do i need to keep these updated with the source till the nameservers are flipped at the registrar.
Trailing dots on hostnames are fine. As for the source changing those TXT records, I suspect that’s for server SSL certificates, and I’m not familiar with CPanel’s process for that.