Urgent: Need Previous Origin IP (A Record) for alhosn-oud[dot]com from DNS History

Website, Application, Performance DNS & Network
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What is the name of the domain?

alhosn-oud.com

What is the issue you’re encountering

My website stopped working after removing Cloudflare because I lost the previous origin server IP (A Record). I urgently need the previous Origin IP (A Record) from Cloudflare’s DNS history before the zone was deleted.

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

•Contacted Bluehost (only shows parking page).
•Namecheap confirmed only the Bluehost IP.
•Cloudflare AI chat provided no solution.

Request:

Can you please help retrieve the previous Origin IP (A Record) from Cloudflare DNS history when my domain was proxied by Cloudflare?

What feature, service or problem is this related to?

DNS records

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

Visit alhosn-oud[dot]com → Displays 404 Not Found.

Screenshot of the error

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The “Audit Log” may be able to provide such information, however, I’m sceptical, as it seems like you’ve been gone from Cloudflare, for 10 weeks.

→ https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/audit-log

If that doesn’t help, then you will need to contact your hosting provider, so that they can supply you with the relevant DNS record(s) again.

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Hi DarkDevil

Thank you for your previous response. I checked the Audit Log, but it only shows the actions performed, not the previous DNS A Record values. My site was removed from Cloudflare on multiple occasions (October 16, November 13, and December 15, 2024).

Unfortunately, I lost access to the previous hosting details, and the developer who managed the site is currently unreachable.

Is there any other way to retrieve the old A Record (Origin IP) from Cloudflare logs or archived configurations?

Alternatively, can Cloudflare provide any history of the proxy IP mappings that may help me trace back the original hosting provider?

Thank you so much for your assistance!!

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No.

No.

Cloudflare cannot be of any assistance here.

The Internet is quite much a “public” landscape, and you cannot really put something on the Internet, while still expecting it to be private.

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There are several organisations out there, that are looking at e.g. DNS data, and generating some sort of “DNS history”, but that is based on the public DNS data.

With Cloudflare, and with Proxied (:orange:) records, you won’t be able to look through them, and see what Cloudflare had, and such tools would only show you the Cloudflare IP addresses, while your DNS records were Proxied (:orange.) with Cloudflare, and as such, will likely not be helpful.

But looking around at such kind of data, I do see the exact same Bluehost IP address, that you’re currently pointing your domain to.

I do also see another one, from the Indian operations of Hostgator, “119.18.48.44”, but as it all goes at least ~ 3 years back, I must admit, that I’m very sceptical, in regards to whether that IP address will be useful at all.

You’re welcome to Google around for such kind of “dns history” sites, and look in to whether some of them may have caught one or more other and potentially useful IP addresses, but there is (unfortunately) nothing further that can be done from Cloudflare, to assist with this.

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