DNSSEC enabled at Fasthosts

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What is the name of the domain?

not yet transferred over

What is the error number?

none

What is the issue you’re encountering

DNSSEC enabled at my registrar , told if they turn it off it can’t be turned back on, can i proceed with name servers change with it on?

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

contacted fasthosts

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There shouldn’t be any reason why that is the case unless it’s just poor policy on their part.

If you do then your site will be unreachable by anyone using a resolver validating DNSSEC (including most public DNS resolvers such as Cloudflare 1.1.1.1, Google 8.8.8.8, Quad 9.9.9.9 etc) until the DS records are updated by Fasthosts to those given by Cloudflare so check they will at least do that.

If they refuse, your safest option to avoid downtime is probably to disable DNSSEC for now and later transfer the domain registration to another registrar if DNSSEC is important to you. Although I’ve not seen this issue, other users of Fasthosts seem to have resolved their DNSSEC issues according to a quick search.

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Hi I tried with it enabled but as you say when i tried to fetch page with google webmaster tools or bing it got unreachable despite nameservers propagating. Would I be better transferring to cloudflare the registrant if so how long does that take?

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I am now being told “Hello, Paul. Apologies but we do not support DNSSEC within Fasthosts” So any reason why once i got confirmation email Cloudflare was looking after my site nothing could access it, bing, google etc?

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You said DNSSEC was enabled. If so and you changed the nameservers, any DNS lookup through a resolver that checks DNSSEC will fail, that’s what DNSSEC does.

What is the domain?

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I have reverted it back to old nameservers while i look into it. According to Fasthosts they don’t use DNSSEC

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So done with another site that does the same this site is not the one I want but good for testing. www.hurstvillage.co.uk

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Does it matter the names in my zone records are not the same, cloudflare soes not capture it all

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eg. in my hosting zone file i have A record cpcontacts.hurstvillage.co.uk but in cloudflare only shows
cpcontacts

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this is my test site and have records as such, but still the likes of google can’t see the site?

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Have now moved the registrar to Cloudflare but still Google and Bing can’t fetch the live URL?

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Ok this solved the issue.

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