Cloudflare DNS SOA and A records not updating

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Oncop53

273 posts

Ultimate Geek

#155982 15-Nov-2014 15:37

Hi, I started using Cloudflare on my websites about 2 months ago, and I am generally pretty happy, but I noticed that not all traffic is being routed through Cloudflare. All DNS servers have picked up the new NS records:
https://www.whatsmydns.net/#NS/rhizobia.co.nz
But not all (including Google!) have picked up the new (cloudflare supplied) SOA and A records:
https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/rhizobia.co.nz

What is going on here? Geekzone works fine:
https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/geekzone.co.nz

All I did when implementing Cloudflare was to change my name servers to those supplied by Cloudflare, it seems this has mostly worked but not completely. Any ideas?

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Oncop53

273 posts

Ultimate Geek

#1176988 16-Nov-2014 20:06

Awesome thanks for your help, I managed to get it sorted.

Both my websites AND domains are hosted by OpenHost. They are both managed through a Plesk web interface. It turns out that there are not one but THREE places to change the DNS settings, two of these are the screen shots above. I just found the other place and altered it there too.

I think one of them must be the master list and the other ones slaved to it, if you knew what you were doing I guess you could just change one.

The really confusing thing here was that it partially worked the way I did it initially, if it didn't work at all I would have kept trying.

One of the sites I manage is a society that doesn't have a lot of money, this site has been going slightly over the traffic limit (2GB) for the past few months, but yesterday went over the limit again only half way though the month, hopefully now with cloudflare fully working blocking all the bots we can stay within our limit.

Cheers.

Oncop53

273 posts

Ultimate Geek

#1176993 16-Nov-2014 20:17

Just in case this thread is useful to someone else here is the "third place"

Yes it should have been obvious being on the "name servers" tab, but I thought that changing the name servers in the DNS Zone tab was enough. Oh well sorted now.