Help with new domain name setup, using redirecting

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Do I need to setup DNS if I’m using redirecting?

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Yes, the tutorial is clear on that.

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I was able to add a CNAME but, not a A record because it asks for an IP address. Where do I get this IP address?

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As mentioned, the tutorial is clear on that.

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which tutorial? do you not know the answer to my question?

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The one you just linked yourself.

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Listen I’m new to all this can you please be a little more helpful

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If you are new I would recommend to read the forum guidelines and to use the search.

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ok can you just answer some questions, maybe I can figure it out. When you buy a domain name from Cloudflare are you suppose to get an IP address for your DNS to setup?

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No, Cloudflare does not provide IP addresses (apart from the automatically assigned proxy ones). Anything IP address related needs to be provided by your host.

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I don’t want to host a webpage, I’m trying to setup just having a domain name and redirecting to any site

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Yeah, that is clear, you still need DNS entries of course. And the tutorial you already found and linked has that information anyhow.

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I don’t see the tutorial where is it?

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→ Help with new domain name setup, using redirecting - #14 by sandro

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I clicked on your words " → [Help with new domain name setup, using redirecting - #14 by sandro" but, I don’t see any tutorial

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You just posted it in your previous response

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My preference is to create only a :orange: Proxied AAAA record using the discard prefix 100:: and then use the new redirect rules.

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An IPv6 address will certainly also work here, but the type won’t matter. It’s important to have the DNS entries and @artemisio.bertone has found that already anyhow, so it’s not clear what we are discussing. He needs to follow the tutorial he found and set up the DNS entries.

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epic.network are you saying all I need is to create only a :orange: Proxied AAAA record using the discard prefix 100:: and then use the new redirect rules. ?

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You don’t need redirect rules, you simply need to follow the tutorial that you yourself have posted quite a number of times. I am really not sure what’s confusing here.

You seemingly have a page rule already and only need the mentioned DNS entries, which do not need to be IPv6 ones.