Mass DNS records being imported

Website, Application, Performance DNS & Network
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can some body please explain in plain english how to do this?

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Hi can anyone show how to delete mass dns records in simple plain english?

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You need to write a script to use the API, or use one that someone else has written.

You might see if one of the tools here will meet your needs.

https://cloudflare-utils.cyberjake.xyz/

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Hi thanks

tried that without success…through SSH on my plesk server as well as command line in windows

what i need is a clear explanation of how to use all that curl stuff…i am a novice…but really need to delete the 965 dns records
that were installed

cheers and thanks
chris

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You shouldn’t need to do anything with curl if you downloaded cloudflare-utils. You will need an API token with the permissions listed at the top of this guide.

DNS Purge - Cloudflare Utilities

You may need to wait for this outage to be resolved.

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Hi…
i downloaded and looked at that but couldn’t seem to find the .exe file to run it?
so not really sure where to go with it

cheers

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If you downloaded a Windows version it would have been a ZIP file with an EXE file inside it along with a LICENSE file and a README.md. You would find the EXE in whatever folder you extracted it into from the ZIP file.

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it was a windows version and defo no exe file in the zip

so still a bit confused

cheers

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Perhaps you downloaded the source code rather than the Windows binary. I downloaded the 64 bit Windows version (cloudflare-utils_1.1.3_windows_amd64.zip) from the releases page on Github and it contains an EXE as well the LICENSE and README.md files.

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Hi

yes have since downloaded that but for some reason the .exe file does not execute on my laptop.
and its defo a 64 bit processo not a 32…??

cheers

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I didn’t download it on Windows, so I was not in a position to do more than examine the contents of the ZIP.

Are you running it from either a CMD or PowerShell terminal?

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Hi…tried via windows command line and no joy…
dont know how to run in Powershell?

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Do you get any output or error message?

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Hi… dont get anything what so ever…
just doesn’t seem to want to execute, i am at a loss?
error message from command line is something like …‘.this is not recognized as an internal or external command, operqaqble program
or batch file’

cheers

.

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Are you running the command from the folder you unzipped into? Are you using a relative path to ensure the command interpreter knows where to find the file?

e.g. %HOMEPATH%\Downloads\> .\cloudflare-utils.exe

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hmmmm…

not sure to be totally honest…like i said …im’ a novice just trying to solve a problem that i didn’t create

cheers

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You may need to find a trusted advisor that work with more closely than we can here in the community. We have exhausted the suggestions and prompts that I can provide here.

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I’ve been meaning to build a tool to do this, but I haven’t run into the issue myself lately so it fell down my project list. I decided to try this out, I’m on Windows 11 x64.

I started by downloading cloudflare-utils_1.1.3_windows_amd64.zip and saved it into C:\Users\MyUserName\Downloads

Unzip the file into C:\Users\MyUserName\Downloads\cloudflare-utils_1.1.3_windows_amd64

Press Start and type cmd.exe

In the console window, change to the directory:
cd C:\Users\MyUserName\Downloads\cloudflare-utils_1.1.3_windows_amd64

Run the tool:
cloudflare-utils.exe

 Error running app: no authentication method detected

Next I looked at the Getting Started guide. I decided to use the not-recommended version with the API_EMAIL and _KEY as I happen to have these handy (you should do it properly, but I’m lazy) using these two commands:

set [email protected]
set CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY=MySecretApiKey

Now run the tool again to see the help page:
cloudflare-utils.exe

NAME:
   cloudflare-utils - Program for quick cloudflare utils

USAGE:
   cloudflare-utils [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]
   <...>

Now I set my domain:
set CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_NAME=example.com

And run the command:

cloudflare-utils dns-purge

It asks me to confirm, then proceeds to remove everything from my zone:

About to remove 1 records.
Continue (y/n): y
Successfully deleted all 1 dns records
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Hi
traied all methods to execute the utils file…no result
so back to manually deleting all those ridiculous dns records…only 621 to go

surely Cloudflare can put a simple button on the website to do this, not beyond the wit of man…!!

cheers

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