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DNS and Cloudflare

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Basics

Registrar will point to your nameservers and nameservers (eg Cloudflare nameservers) will point to your hosting provider.

  • A record points to IP address
  • CNAME points to another name eg 'nipeshkc7.github.io'
  • AAAA points to IPV6 record

Cloudflare

  • Can be used to add A, CNAME, AAAA records etc.
  • Can be used for free SSL
  • Faster load times due to its CDN.

GCP Cloud DNS

  • Costs money, so instead use the registrar's DNS management or Cloudflare.

Dig (DNS Lookup)

  • Use tools like Dig for DNS lookup (see DNS servers etc)