Unable to add DMARC NS

[noor.awan]

as per best DMARC standard, it is important to get full email visibility with DMARC RUA & RUF and we use valimail for that.

To enable DMARC for this domain, we are required to add the following NS record for the ‘_dmarc’ subdomain to DNS:

_dmarc.mydomain.com	NS	ns.vali.email.

we are getting below error in Cloudflare portal.
Non-NS records with that host already exist. (Code: 81055)

I understand that Cloudflare doesn’t support glue records but in DMARC case, it is very important to have visibility to our email system and I am sure many others will come and ask the same question

Please advise, if any alternate way is possible?

[cscharff]

Have you tried deleting the existing DNS records with that name before trying to delegate? Both cannot exist.

[noor.awan]

what do you mean by existing DNS?
I can’t add it _dmarc.mydomain.com as NS

[epic.network]

@noor.awan

Non-NS records with that host already exist.

You need to delete your existing records with the name _dmarc.example.com before you can add NS records at that name. As already indicated:

@cscharff

Both cannot exist.

[noor.awan]

ooh you mean TXT record with _dmarc needs to be deleted before I can use NS
okay, got it

Thanks for your help, much appreciated