CNAME flattening — by Cloudflare

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Explains how Cloudflare lets you put a CNAME at the zone apex by resolving the chain and answering with the final IP addresses. It also lists the caveats: cross-account targets give Error 1014, flattening everything can break third-party domain verification, and a dangling CNAME returns an empty answer that can look like a propagation problem.

Read the full article on developers.cloudflare.com

Source: CNAME flattening by Cloudflare. Licence: Link only (©).

Source reviewed: 2026-11-02
Link checked: 2026-11-02
Tested hands-on: Not by Oddbyte.Me

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