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Gateway DNS records

Once you create a gateway, Cloudflare automatically creates and adds records to your Cloudflare DNS so your gateway can receive and route traffic appropriately:

  • Ethereum gateways: Creates a proxied CNAME record pointing your hostname to ethereum.cloudflare.com.
  • IPFS gateways: Creates a proxied CNAME record pointing your hostname to ipfs.cloudflare.com and a TXT record with the value specified for its DNSLink.
  • Polygon gateways: Creates a proxied CNAME record pointing your hostname to polygon.cloudflare.com.

These records cannot be edited within Cloudflare DNS. To make edits, you will have to edit the gateway configuration itself.

​​ Existing DNS records

When you create a gateway using a hostname with pre-existing DNS records, Cloudflare automatically overwrites your existing records to make them apply to your Web3 gateway.