Currently we set one domain in Cloudflare so we can use its CDN and load balancer. For eg abc-example-com
There is another domain in a different DNS server setup in Google Cloud DNS which is abc-old-com so I set up the CNAME record in google DNS form abc-old-com --> to the abc-example-com.
And I am getting the error that Cloudflare cannot resolve the DNS. Actually if I tried to do the revert direction such as Cloudflare cname point to google dns, it is working…
It is not a limitiation. CNAMEs are not redirects but DNS pointers. You either need to move the previous domain to Cloudflare as well and perform a proper redirect with page rules or you can unproxy (switching to ) your Cloudflare host and have the request go straight to your IP address instead of Cloudflare’s.
Thanks for your reply. However we want to use Cloudflare because Cloudflare has a better CDN and WAP function than gcp.
It is interesting that when I tried it with gcp DNS, by adding a cname redirect from Cloudflare to gcp dns, it is actually working.
test.Cloudflare-example.com.au --> cname --> test.gcp-example.com.au -->(A) --> gcp load balancer IP
This is just test and not the right way as I want.
) your Cloudflare host and have the request go straight to your IP address instead of Cloudflare’s.