I have a domain on Cloudflare <example.com>. I have full control over it.
I would like to have a subdomain on DigitalOcean, apps.example.com. I want the digital ocean nameservers to be authoritative for that subdomain.
I added a few NS entries to cloudflare for apps in the example.com
I added the subdomain to Digital Ocean.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem as though this worked. Is this even possible?
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You need to add the new domain app.example.com to DigitalOcean after that it should give you two nameservers which you must enter them at cloudflare like this
NS app.example.com <DO NameServer1>
NS app.example.com <DO NameServer1>
Now it should be working, to make sure use this command
dig +trace app.example.com
It should show that at the end DO NameServer is serving your request.
I hope it helps.
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