Error 1000 appeared on my website page

[gregory818]

My website was working fine but all of a sudden it went down and said ERROR 1000.
Why would this happen all of a sudden without any provocation?

I went to the Cloudflare DNS for the website and changed the IP address to Cloudflare IP. The site suddenly came up for about 30 seconds and then went down again with the same Error message.

[neiljay]

@gregory818

it went down and said ERROR 1000.

The error commonly caused when the DNS record is pointed to the Cloudflare ips. In this case, you’ll be required to obtain new ip from your host. Best I suggest is read the following Tutorial and take required step:

Fixing Error 1000 - DNS points to prohibited IP

General Information about Error 1000 This tutorial covers Error 1000 - DNS points to prohibited IP, which looks like this: [image] This error is most commonly caused due to one or more DNS records in the Cloudflare dashboard pointing to a Cloudflare IP address. It can also be caused if your DNS record(s) reference another reverse proxy. In this tutorial, we will focus on fixing the most common cause, DNS records pointing to Cloudflare IPs. If you see this error, follow the steps below and d…