The Cloudflare global network can improve the security, performance, reliability, and privacy of anything connected to the Internet, such as your website, SaaS application, or corporate network.
How Cloudflare works as a DNS provider / Reverse Proxy
- Cloudflare becomes the primary authoritative DNS Provider for your domain i.e respond to DNS queries for your domain, with following settings:
- Proxy Status: Whether traffic is proxied through cloudflare
- TTL: how long it takes for record updates to reach your end users
- If proxy status is active, the
HTTP/HTTPSreq are routed to the Cloudflare -> Origin Server Network (Cloudflare acts as a Proxies Server)
- Else: the
HTTP/HTTPSrequests are directly onto -> Origin Server Network.
Example DNS table
| Type | Name | Content | Proxy status | TTL | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A | blog | 192.0.2.1 | Proxied | Auto | Edit |
A | shop | 192.0.2.2 | DNS only | Auto | Edit |