Cloudflare is so unreliable most times the nslookup gets the incorrect IP for teh website and occas

Cloudflare is so unreliable most times the nslookup gets the incorrect IP for teh website and occasionally it gets the right one

Hharryphilip1275 Cloudflare is so unreliable most times the nslookup gets the incorrect IP for t...

Hard@Work•4/3/25, 9:23 PM

What do you mean "the right one"?

Peps•4/3/25, 9:26 PM

it probably has nothing to do with you getting the 'incorrect ip', as you probably have Cloudflare's proxy enabled for your records, so you'll see CF's ip instead of your server as CF will act as a middleman

Peps•4/3/25, 9:27 PM

as for the 'too many redirects' error, make sure that the SSL mode on the Cloudflare dashboard is set to Full (Strict)Full (Strict) and that you have a valid SSL certificate installed on your webserver

Peps•4/3/25, 9:28 PM

Cloudflare has plenty of documentation to troubleshoot these very common errors, for example: https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/troubleshooting/too-many-redirects/

Zenith•4/3/25, 9:49 PM

hey, is there a way i can make my pages functions fail closed?

Zenith•4/3/25, 9:50 PM

in case of usage related failures

Payne•4/3/25, 9:52 PM

I have cloudflare Warp+ on my android device. I noticed there is a key with my ID in settings. I tried copying that key and pasting it on my cloudflare Warp application on MacOS but for some reason, I get "Invalid Key" error. Is it because WARP+ is not available on MacOS?

PPeps it probably has nothing to do with you getting the 'incorrect ip', as you probab...

harryphilip1275OP•4/3/25, 10:32 PM

Must I turn off the proxy ? Yes I have valid SSLs

Hharryphilip1275 Must I turn off the proxy ? Yes I have valid SSLs

Peps•4/3/25, 10:32 PM

if you have a valid SSL cert then you just have to switch the SSL mode to be full (strict)full (strict), at the SSL settings on the dashboard

PPeps if you have a valid SSL cert then you just have to switch the SSL mode to be `fu...

harryphilip1275OP•4/3/25, 10:38 PM

And the proxy on the A records ? Must I change those and turn off proxies ? it doesnt let me change SSL to strict as its only for Enterprise customers , when I turn off Proxies there is a recommendation to turn on proxies otherwise it exposes my IP but if it doesnt work then there is no point in cloudflare, this is 2nd time I have tried it and both times my website stopped working so now I am very leary of Cloudflare

Hharryphilip1275 And the proxy on the A records ? Must I change those and turn off proxies ? it...

Peps•4/3/25, 10:39 PM

ah right forgot strict is for ENT only, in that case regular FullFull is fine.
You can leave proxy on, as you mentioned your SSL certs are correct. Just be aware that the ips you see when doing nslookup won't be yours, as that's expected.

PPeps ah right forgot strict is for ENT only, in that case regular `Full` is fine. You...

harryphilip1275OP•4/3/25, 10:41 PM

But then the site doesnt work , so now I have lost confidence in cloudflare I have tried this twice and both times my site stopped working so had ot revert back to my original nameservers and thne it worked again

Walshy•4/3/25, 10:42 PM

full strict isn't ent, origin-pull is ent only

Hharryphilip1275 But then the site doesnt work , so now I have lost confidence in cloudflare I ha...

Peps•4/3/25, 10:42 PM

then the site doesnt work

Can you elaborate on that?

harryphilip1275OP•4/3/25, 10:43 PM

so changing it to full will makeit work again ? I am skeptical I went back to my previous nameservers and paused Cloudflare and then the site worked again

harryphilip1275OP•4/3/25, 10:43 PM

its gets a message too many redirects

Peps•4/3/25, 10:43 PM

That's because your ssl mode was likely set to FlexibleFlexible at the time

harryphilip1275OP•4/3/25, 10:44 PM

and nslookup doesnt get the correct IP only very occasionally does it get the correct IP of my site

Peps•4/3/25, 10:44 PM

also I don't recommend switching between nameservers multiple times if you're actively troubleshooting issues, as it takes up to 24 hours (but usually about a hour) for the new nameserver to take effect

harryphilip1275OP•4/3/25, 10:44 PM

how does SSL set to flexible make it get incorrect IP ?

harryphilip1275OP•4/3/25, 10:45 PM

well how does one do this without switching I couldnt leave my site not working ? can I use Cloudflare without changing to their nameservers ?

Peps•4/3/25, 10:45 PM

At this point it's probably best to create a thread at #general-help and continue there, as this channel isn't quite meant for long-running troubleshooting sessions

harryphilip1275OP•4/3/25, 10:46 PM

at this point I am giving up I think spent too much time on soemthing that doesnt work

Peps•4/3/25, 10:46 PM