How do I know what IP addresses to add?

Website, Application, Performance DNS & Network
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So i have the following nameservers I need to update - however the domain registrar is forcing me to have to put down IP addresses however I have no idea?

I went over to MXTool to try and add one of the ones suggested on there but this didn’t work? Please any help would be much appreciated as I really need to correct it asap

The name servers are:

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You appear to have linked to the Cloudflare website where it looks like you meant to share your assigned nameserver names. No matter. You can use any IP that is returned when you query the hostname.

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So how can I tell if it’s propagated correctly? every other domain I’ve ever added I would get a confirmation of it being activated within half an hour max… with this It’s been over half a day it still no email confirmation?

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Lookup the NS records for your domain at the authoritative nameservers for the parent zone to see which nameservers are active for your zone.

If your domain is example.com, you would first need to find the authoritative nameservers for your parent zone. I’ll provide an example using dig but you can use your preferred tools.

dig ns com. will return a list of authoritative nameservers for the com. zone. You can then query them for the NS records they have for your zone. In the following example you will substitute your domain for example.com and one of the parent zone nameservers for ns.example.net

dig ns example.com ns.example.net.

You should see your assigned Cloudflare nameservers if the change at your registrar was successful.

If you dont see them, you may need to ask your registrar why they are not updating the parent zone with your changes.

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I’m so sorry I do not follow at all… I’m completely lost. Is there a video or something demonstrating what you explain above? Thanks

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Is your registrar asking for the IP address of the nameservers when you set them? A few (mainly European) registrars seem to do this for some reason.

If you don’t know how to look them up, you should be able to find them in this list. Just pick any one of the 3 listed for each nameserver.

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