DNS records contain information about your domain and are used to make your website or application available to visitors and other web services.
Depending on the providers you used to get your domain name and host your website or application, it is expected that DNS records were automatically created on your behalf. According to your setup, you can use Cloudflare to manage your DNS records.
DNS records have different types and each type serves a different purpose. For background about the different types of DNS records, refer to the Learning Center ↗. To quickly find reference information about a specific type refer to DNS record types.
When managing your records at Cloudflare, besides the common record fields described below, you may also find an option for Proxy status and CNAME flattening. These are specific features offered by Cloudflare.
Record fields
Content field.Example
DNS management for example.com:
| Type | Name | Content | Proxy status | TTL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | blog | 192.0.2.1 | Proxied | Auto |
In this example, an IP address resolution record of type A is indicating that the resources that correspond to the subdomain blog.example.com can be reached on the IPv4 address 192.0.2.1.
Also, as this record is proxied, Cloudflare automatically defines for how long this information should be cached by DNS resolvers.
There is a limit to the number of records you can create on a single zone.
2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC: 1,0002024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC: 200