Hey guys, For my home server I am using a Cloudflare domain name to access it, but I noticed today that my connections are secured using the Google Trust Services LLC certs, rather than the Let’s Encrypt certs Nginx Proxy Manager uses… so I’m assuming that cloudflare is having a ball sniffing all my traffic before forwarding my requests to my server…

Is there a way around this? Do other registrars do this??

Thanks!

  • forbiddenlake@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    You can disable cloudflare’s tls termination by setting the DNS record to DNS only. Be aware that this then bypasses their cdn, probably making things slower, and bypasses most of the security they put in place for you.

    Other cdns may or may not do similar. It’s hard to do WAF when you can’t see the traffic.

    Note that a registrar and a cdn are different things. It’s possible to remain on cloud flare for your domain registration and DNS while using a different cdn.