Hello, I recently set up a personal website on a domain mrks.cf using Cloudflare Pages.
The direct pages.dev link works 100% of the time, but the mrks.cf one someties works fine, otherwise takes a fair bit to resolve, and some other times straight up doesn’t work.
This also happens for a few other subdomains which are also set through Cloudflare (not pictured). It’s not an internet issue of mine because other websites work perfectly fine. What could cause this?
This seems to be an issue with the Freenom, who runs the .cf TLD.
$ dig mrks.cf
...
;; Query time: 1030 msec
$ time dig mrks.cf NS
...
;; Query time: 1020 msec
dig mrks.cf NS 0.00s user 0.01s system 0% cpu 11.039 total
In fact, the lookup for the .cf root servers is slow:
cf. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
cf. 0 IN NS d.ns.CF.
cf. 0 IN NS a.ns.CF.
cf. 0 IN NS c.ns.CF.
cf. 0 IN NS b.ns.CF.
...
;; Query time: 2640 msec
dig ns cf 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 7.655 total
and trying to query your domain’s authoritative records via the official nameservers themselves leads to connection timeouts:
time dig mrks.cf NS @a.ns.cf
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
This is corroborated by dnsviz mrks.cf | DNSViz
When I dig via the authoritative CF nameservers (dig AAAA mrks.cf @ian.ns.cloudflare.com), the lookup is instant.
All in all Freenom is a free service and there are countless examples on the forums here showcasing issues with their servers. You might want to consider a different top-level domain for your site.
i use domain from freenom also.
and cant access, always get response DNS time out from nslookup .
Oh well, it had a good run. Thank you very much for checking this for me.
I’ll be purchasing a proper domain now, cheers
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