Partial cname Setup - Proxying A-records

Website, Application, Performance DNS & Network
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Hello Cloudflare Community,

I recently setup a Partial cname setup and i have a few questions.

  1. If i use the A record for my server, how will that affect the DNS on my end? i will like to keep all my DNS with my own team, but will like to use cloudflare for WAF purposes only.
  2. If i use A-record, will it catch all the virtual host that live on my server?
  3. Can an A-record in a partial cname setup be proxied with cloudflare? or do the proxy only works for Cnames?

Thanks for all your help

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Yes, of course. That’s basically the whole point of a partial setup.

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Thanks for the quick response. Cloudflare documentation has given me two different answers:

*According to the Cloudflare documentation (Source: 141337k), in a Partial (CNAME) setup, A records cannot be proxied. Only CNAME records can be proxied through Cloudflare.*

The documentation states: “Proxy eligibility Only A, AAAA, and CNAME DNS records that serve HTTP or HTTPS traffic can be proxied. Other record types cannot be proxied.”

The confusion of the answer inside the documentation is why im asking. Thanks

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What confusion? It says A records that are used for HTTP/S traffic can be proxied.

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Did you not read the first sentence where it says “A-records cannot be proxied”?

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According to the Cloudflare documentation (Source: 141337k), in a Partial (CNAME) setup, A records cannot be proxied. Only CNAME records can be proxied through Cloudflare.*

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Can you give a link to where it says that?

What’s that?

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Hey, so lets say i own a server (me.example.com) and i got other virtual host that live on the server ( sue.example.com , bob.example.com, smith.example.com). Of course they all got the same IP address. How will cloudflare know to get to the correct virtual host?

thanks

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Cloudflare sends traffic to the IP address that you have configured. You decide which virtual host accepts a specific request in your webserver’s settings.

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