As suggested earlier, you are pointing to a nonexistent hostname and it is failing as expected. If your goal is to redirect your apex name to www you can delete that CNAME and replace it with a proxied AAAA record of 100::, then follow this guide.
Thanks for the reply - I appreciate it. However, I am finding your tech shorthand hard to follow?
I am trying to redirect traffic from chimni.ie and/or www.chimni.ie to www.chimni.com.
We already have two domains that do this (chimni.co.uk and chimni.io ). Neither of them has a redirect set up. So I copied their DNS set up exactly. See screenshot for the .co.uk domain.
I wonder if the redirect is set up elsewhere already because it doesn’t refer to it in any of the DNS configurations.
Redirection does not occur via DNS records alone. DNS is only a small part of a redirect. If your existing redirects are not configured in your Cloudflare account, they would have to have been set up on your origin server. This means that copying only the DNS will not duplicate your previous results. You will need to configure the necessary virtual host and corresponding redirect on your origin server.
Cloudflare is very much a self-service platform at all subscription levels, and while the Community can offer assistance, it is a lot easier to follow along when you understand the terminology. If you have a question abot any specific term, let me know which one, and I will do my best to explain it for you or point you to an existing resource that does the same.
If it isn’t, or if you would rather host the redirects at the Cloudflare edge, the guide I shared earlier covers one such scenario. The following guide has more examples.
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