My actual server IP address is being shown on various DNS lookups, and the actual server IP address can be seen in Developer Tools. I have cleared all caches in my computer, but a cache should not affect what is seen in dnschecker.org or viewdns.info.
I noticed this with another domain this morning. I removed the domain from cloudflare, then readded it. Cloudflare made me change the nameservers for this other domain while readding it. Then the domain started using CF server IP instead of my server IP. Also, ALL of my NS are ‘pam and rodney’, while this new NS is guy and stephanie. Is there something wrong with pam and rodney.ns.cloudflare?
Strange. I just “Paused” cloudflare, waited a moment, and then “Enabled” cloudflare on this domain, and now the records show correctly. Why did this happen?
While a domain is pending being added to Cloudflare, DNS records are not proxied. Hard to say what happened now it has passed, but it may be the domain was pending and pausing then re-enabling Cloudflare re-read the nameservers. Or it may be the domain was already paused, or you are using a different account from the one the domain was set up in.
Thank you for your reply, SJR. The domains have been on here for years.
I saw weird things showing in my server error log - leading me to believe that CF was not enforcing rules.
When I dug into it, I saw that CF was not proxying. Pausing and re-enabling solved the problem, as now, the domains are proxying and enforcing WAF rules.
Strange that CF still said the domains were proxied, but … the real IP was being passed to the user.
All is better now (for the time being!). Still confused as to how/why that happened.
