Cloudflare DNS
  • 27 Feb 2023
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Cloudflare DNS

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Article Summary

Cloudflare DNS runs one of the largest DNS networks in the world.

Types of Assets Fetched

This adapter fetches the following types of assets:

  • Devices
  • Users (when Fetch Users is selected)

Parameters

  1. Cloudflare Domain - Keep as 'https://api.cloudflare.com'.

  2. User Email - Email address associated with your Cloudflare account. For more details, see Cloudflare API documentation.

  3. API Key / API Token - Specify your account API key or an API token that you created.

    1. API Key - Provides full permissions. API key generated on the Cloudflare account under "My Account" page.
    2. API Token - Provides custom permissions, which you can configure. To create a token, open your Cloudflare account -> Get your API Key -> API Tokens -> Create Token. Then create the a token with the details below. Once completed, obtain the generated API Token.
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  4. Verify SSL - Select whether to verify the SSL certificate of the server.

  5. HTTPS Proxy (optional) - Connect the adapter to a proxy instead of directly connecting it to the domain.

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Advanced Settings

Note:

From Version 4.6, Advanced settings can either apply for all connections for this adapter, or you can set different advanced settings and/or different scheduling for a specific connection, refer to ​Advanced Configuration for Adapters.

  1. Parse CNAME records as devices - Select whether to fetch each CNAME record as a separate device.
  2. Fetch Custom Hostnames - Select whether to fetch additional custom hostname information.
  3. Fetch users (optional) - Select whether to fetch users, in addition to devices.
  4. Fetch Cloudflare WAF Rules - Select this option to fetch WAF rules and associate them to devices based on the Zone they belong to.
Note:

To learn more about Adapter Configuration tab advanced settings, see Adapter Advanced Settings.



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