Serve main website (www) with cloudflare and other subdomain not

[user68721]

What is the name of the domain?

Online-Rechner 2024 - mit 202 verschiedenen Rechnern

What is the issue you’re encountering

We dont kknow how to configure our DNS

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

We are new to cloudflare and we are not specialized in nameservers / DNS. Our projekt is hosted at IONOS in Germany. We like to serve our main project (www.smart-rechner.de and smart-rechner.de) via Cloudflare and the the subdomain “load.smart-rechner.de” not via Cloudflare. This is because of legal reasons in Germany. We can configure at Ionos the nameservers and all DNS entrys. Ionos told us, that we should delete the Ionos Nameservers for the hole domain and exchange them with the Cloudflare Nameservers. Ok. But where can we configure that “load” is not served by Cloudflare? Currently there are “A” and “AAAA” records in the DNS for “load”. These point on fix IP numbers. Is that enough or do we nee to establish new DNS NS records for “load”?

What feature, service or problem is this related to?

DNS records

[sjr]

Set the DNS record for the subdomain load to “DNS only” and not “Proxied”, traffic will then go directly from the client to your server and not pass through Cloudflare.

Proxy status · Cloudflare DNS docs

You could also set NS records for load to delegate the nameservers, but unless you have a specific reason for this and know what you are doing, the above is more simple.