Godaddy Email Records and Changing DNS

DNS & Network
#1

Went in circles with Godaddy tech support about this…When I went through the steps to add my site to my Cloudflare account, the first image below is what the current DNS situation is…according to Cloudflare’s report.
The MX record has *DNS Only as its setting. Does that mean that I don’t need to change anything on the MX record? Client has GD webmail for 3 email addresses and they will freak out if their email stops working. GD says I need to ADD an MX record. (second image)

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Here’s the GD tech’s response (AFTER I explained to them that CDN stands for Content Delivery Network and is NOT another hosting company…
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#2

Yes. The existing MX record is using Office 365, and when you import that to Cloudflare it will be exactly the same, and set to DNS only.

One thing I notice is that you have an :orange: entry for www.admin. That will not be covered by the Universal certificate as they only cover the one level of sub domain. Users will see a browser error message. You can either purchase an ACM cert from Cloudflare, set the entry to :grey:, change to something with just one label, like www-admin, or accept that users visiting the admin page will receive an error page.

#3

Thank you for the info! My clients do log into the site from time to time, so having any issues with the dashboard access would be a problem. I will see if I can set that entry to the gray cloud settings. Thanks!

#4

Hi Michael,
I did go into the Cloudflare settings for the site and change www.admin to the gray cloud setting. Now, there’s an orange alert next to the record with this message: “This record exposes the IP behind activeentities.com which you have proxied through Cloudflare. To fix this, change its proxy status.”

#5

Of the four options I gave, each one has some trade-off. You have to pick the one that is best for you. My preference would be to use a name like admin or www-admin, set :orange: and protected by Cloudflare Access, but that requires you to be able and willing to change the hostname.

#6

Is this www.admin related to the site’s Wordpress dashboard URL? The one ending in /wp-admin?

#7

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