CloudFlare CNAME should not be Proxied

John Zoetebier

• April 21, 2020 21:38

Just a heads up when someone adds a CNAME to CloudFlare.

Ensure the Proxied flag is switched off as this will prvent Brizy Cloud to see it as a valid CNAME.

You can check this issue by using nslookup on Windows.

nslookup

server 1.1.1.1

set q=cname

YOUR_DOMAIN_CNAME

When CloudFlare Proxied is enable the nslookup will point to your YOUR_DOMAIN in stead of the CNAME value.

 

 

 

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  Alex

  • April 22, 2020 12:44

  Hi John,

  Thanks for your involvement.

  We mentioned this here: https://support.brizy.io/hc/en-us/community/posts/360057819612-CloudFlare-is-acting-up-with-Brizy-Cloud-again but it's a good idea to create a separate post for this small detail.

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  Nicole Smith

  • May 19, 2020 00:59

  @John Zoetebier thanks for the tip though I'm still having trouble.

  The only way I can get Brizy Cloud to work with Cloudflare is if I remove the proxy from both the A record and the CNAME. However isn't that pointless if the idea is to go via Cloudflare to disguise the IP?

  Have I got this wrong...is there another way?

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  John Zoetebier

  • May 19, 2020 08:33

  The use case I have is where CNAME points to a different IP address than the A record of my main website.

  For example:

  A record: my.domain => IP address my.domain

  CNAME: demo1.my.domain =>IP address Brizy website

  The CNAME is just an alias for the Brizy web server and it is not proxied by CloudFlare.

   

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  Felix Angeles

  • June 23, 2020 03:38

  Unfortunately, this is very troublesome when you want to use Cloudflare's firewall. My site is irrelevant for people outside of India, so I had set up a firewall to block non-Indian traffic. But it doesn't work if the proxy is disabled. And if it is enabled, then brizy doesn't work!

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  Alex

  • June 23, 2020 11:21

  Hi,

  at the moment I don't have a working workaround for you. You will soon be able to use the Cloudflare proxy with Brizy (it's on the to-do list) but at the moment this does not work.

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  Frangiskos Frangeskides

  • April 04, 2022 21:27

  Hi, Is there any progress with this? Can we use cloudflare proxy now with brizy cloud?

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  KC George

  • April 05, 2022 13:18
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  Hi Frangiskos

  By default Cloudflare DNS enables Proxy for your domains. If proxy is enabled for your domain, your domain record will look like this.

  

   

  Please disable Proxy for your domain, and then you can use Cloudflare with Brizy Cloud. If you disable Proxy, your domain record will look like this

   

   

  You can disable Proxy in the DNS section of your Cloudflare account

  

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