Layman’s term, you need a dns record that points to where your site is hosted. An A record is an Address record, whoever is hosting your site can tell you the contents of the record, it will be an IP address looking something like 123.345.678.901.
Thanks The other posts on this topic point to the same “record” link and when I see the word “deprecate” I was assuming it’s old because it will be deleted.
However, my “hosting site” is Cloudflare, but I can’t find a “valid IP4v address” that seems to work that’s for my site. I found the following https://www.cloudflare.com/ips-v4/# and those didn’t work (I was trying to add an “A” record because I had the error message to create one for @ and www. I tried using the IP address from the dig search and neither of those worked.
I’ve reviewed the following (among others) that have very different details:
I don’t understand why terminology seems to discuss Cloudflare as if it’s a 3rd party and I realize for some it is.
Where do I find the valid number to add to the space if Cloudflare is my hosting site?
Those tutorials linked to from the record names are not being updated as the dash ui has changed, but the content is really good.
Cloudflare is not a hosting provider, that gets a bit murky regarding Cloudlfare Pages, where we do serve sites. But, that does not apply here, the shown in your A record belongs to a site that is using cloudflare, hence that error 1000. Do you know who is hosting your site? You can find out who owns the IP shown in your A record using this site IP WHOIS Lookup.
It may be that you need to use a CNAME record to point to that hosting provider. But, I’d start by figuring out where your site is located and then we can figure out the best way to point to that location.
So, are you saying that I would need to use the ISP provider number for my computer at a point in time? So if my provider is xfinity, and that’s the IP address I use? Or do you mean the IP address of my modem, like TP-Link?
If I go to IP WHOIS Lookup, I’d have to know the IP address, which is what I don’t understand where to get that. So am I using the IP address on my tp-link device?
Also, so if Cloudflare doesn’t “host” can I use Canva website builder for example and revise my DNS numbers to direct back to the website I create there? When I try that, the page sitll doesn’t load. I’m sorry for so many questions, I’m just trying to figure out what cloudflare does and what supplemental “material” I need if I keep by domain here or should I move it somewhere else.
Also part 2: Canva is telling me to change DNS records, with my “host” if cloudflare isn’t the host but my domain reside with cloudflare (according with ICANN) where am I changing the DNS records?