Introducing CNAME Flattening: RFC-Compliant CNAMEs at a Domain's Root - 0 views
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you can now safely use a CNAME record, as opposed to an A record that points to a fixed IP address, as your root record in CloudFlare DNS without triggering a number of edge case error conditions because you’re violating the DNS spec.
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CNAME Flattening allowed us to use a root domain while still maintaining DNS fault-tolerance across multiple IP addresses.
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Traditionally, the root record of a domain needed to point to an IP address (known as an A -- for "address" -- Record).
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