How to clean old DNS records in Cloudflare

[jfrere]

Hi all,

Cloudron make it easy to add proper DNS entries in Cloudflare when you add a domain, but when you delete it, the DNS entries in Cloudflare are not deleted.

Is there a way to make Cloudron delete those entries?

[girish]

@jfrere mm, entries are actually deleted when you uninstall apps. Could it be that you moved to a fresh Cloudron installation abandoning apps in the old server (i.e you never explicitly uninstalled them) ?

Otherwise, I am afraid, you have to go to Cloudflare dashboard and delete the obsolete entries manually. Of course, there could be some CLI tool that helps with this cleanup too.

[jfrere]

@girish it is possible that my cloudflare token doesn't allow Cloudron to delete those entries?

[girish]

@jfrere that is indeed possible. Cloudflare recently (maybe around 2 years ago) added proper access control to their API tokens.

[girish]

Right, in the Cloudflare Token UI, you can actually create readonly tokens.