Unable to access website through CNAME record

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#1

After receiving a top level domain, I set my name servers to CloudFlare’s, set up my CNAME to point to my 000webhost website, and then changed my settings in my dashboard to reflect these changes.
Both @ and www have been set up.

Any DNS check I use shows www.criticalgenesis.com has a CNAME record pointing to critical-genesis.000webhostapp.com

My Dashboard is set up to use criticalgenesis.com and www.criticalgenesis.com

However, neither of these actually work. Instead I get the error:

This site can’t be reached

www.criticalgenesis.com’s server DNS address could not be found.
Search Google for critical genesis
ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED

I can’t for the life of me figure out what’s wrong.

#2

http://www.criticalgenesis.com/ Loads fine on my end,
clear your browser cache, hit CTRL+F5 and flush your DNS :wink:

#3

Not working man. i have the same issue.

#4

So, I ended up having to change my DNS. Flushing it didn’t do it for some reason. Maybe the DNS I was using hadn’t actually had the changes propagated? If that’s even a thing?

It’s odd. It works on a different DNS, but my regular DNS doesn’t work. Maybe it’s not fully propagated?

#5

But you still using 000webhosts dns?

#6

I’m not! I’m actually on Google’s DNS. Their DNS seems to find the changes just fine where the DNS automatically assigned didn’t get the changes.

#7

Okay? i dont get you but uhh… COOL