We are making an emergency change today that will affect your ability to sign up customers via the Cloudflare Host API. Specifically, the ‘zone_set’ operation for creating partial zones will be disabled today,
We apologize for making this urgent breaking change.
This basically just killed our partner setup and the single most important reason to use it.
Anyone have any information on what’s going on? This is really frustrating having a client being in the middle of a project, having setup 5 zones, and is just about to move the “production” zone. I’ve worked with quite a few larger companies and the biggest hurdle is always moving the NS.
The biggest argument and possibility of talking clients into Cloudflare was just removed and now makes it easier to recommend other solutions.
I agree, this is our method of working. Transferring the complete DNS to CloudFlare is not an option for us. I wonder why we were not even notified up front so we could decide on an alternative.
Same here The vast majority of our clients cannot change name servers and cname was the only option available for them. This kills off a large part of the “partner” system without any explanation, reason or notice.
Indeed. Not being able to add new zones can be worked around, albeit with pain. Not being able to modify existing zones is problematic.
But, we need to know if existing cname zones are going to be turned off with zero notice, as this would take the vast majority of our sites down. Some of our clients need several weeks notice to change DNS records so the same zero notice would not work well.
I received the following response to a support ticket, which wasn’t exactly helpful, apart from seeming to confirm that existing cname setups should continue to work:
grumpf…“potential” security risk…why not fix the real issue instead of removing the entire feature and crippling our services and basically leaves our customers stranded…?
discovering this after at least 10 years of operations makes me wonder…
I replied to their last message on Tuesday morning asking if there were any plans to fix this, for suggestions on alternatives and pointed out this community thread. Still no response after 48 hours.
I think it is shocking how partners are treated. If they do this without communication, whatever the outcome is of this situation will be, they can do it again.
What! …you cannot even add any new subdomains to current zones anymore.
Now the partner account is useless and our customers are left on whats there for now.
No more sites can be added to the ones you already have.
I haven´t got any answers either and having 140+ zones in there gives me the creeps…
We are having problems with the CloudFlare plugin in CPanel.
By clicking on (Provision Domain with CNAME Setup)
Return this error to me.
Do you know what it can be?
An unknown CloudFlare error has occurred during zone creation and has been logged. We apologize for the inconvenience and we will fix the problem promptly.
The vast majority of our clients cannot change name servers and cname was the only option available for them. This kills off a large part of the “partner” system without any explanation, reason or notice.