Clarify Cloudflare DNS setup for custom domains - #36
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Self-review: the broken DNS migration instruction is fixed, with one wording edge case to address before this is ready.
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A live Cloudflare dashboard/tunnel test was not performed, so this pass does not independently verify the dashboard's current automatic DNS-record creation behavior. |
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Summary
<tunnel-UUID>.cfargotunnel.comtarget for the manual fallbackWhy
The guide told readers to copy records that were never listed, which could leave existing websites or email records behind during the nameserver change. It also told readers to use a bare tunnel ID as a CNAME target even though Cloudflare Tunnel targets use the
cfargotunnel.comhostname.User impact
Readers can move an existing domain to Cloudflare without silently dropping unrelated DNS services, and they can confidently use a dedicated BlueBubbles subdomain.
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git diff --checkFixes #25