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title: "DNS Migration to Cloudflare | DuoCircle"
description: "We anticipate that the DNS migration to Cloudflare on July 20th, 2019 will be uneventful."
image: "https://www.duocircle.com/images/og-default.png"
canonical: "https://www.duocircle.com/blog/announcements/dns-migration-to-cloudflare/"
---

Quick Answer

DuoCircle migrated its DNS to Cloudflare on 20 July 2019\. The migration was supported by DNS redundancy across multiple top-level domains for MX records, a setup recommended to customers since 2016 so mail flow survives a TLD outage. If the migration affected delivery, customers can update MX records by service type. For Email Gateway, Email Forwarding, and Phishing Protection: MX 10 the customer's custom MX record (from the customer portal) or mx1.mailhop.org, MX 20 mx1.mailhop.us, MX 30 mx1.mailhop.co, MX 40 mx1.mailhop.co.uk. For Backup MX: MX 5 the customer's current mail server, MX 10 mx2.mailhop.org or the custom MX, MX 20 mx2.mailhop.us, MX 30 mx2.mailhop.co, MX 40 mx2.mailhop.co.uk.

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![DNS Migration to Cloudflare](https://media.mailhop.org/duocircle/images/2019/07/SMTP-relay-2522.jpg) 

We anticipate that the DNS migration to Cloudflare on July 20th, 2019 will be uneventful, however in the event that there is an issue we have incorporated DNS redundancies into your  
email services.

Starting in 2016 we began recommending that all of our customers utilize DNS redundancy on  
multiple Top Level Domains (<https://www.duocircle.com/announcements/new-mx-records-dns-redundancy>) for their  
MX records.

With these records are in place, even the failure of the .org domain would not have  
an impact on mail flow.

However, if you are reading this, chances are that there was an issue with the migration.  
Please update your MX records based on the type of service you have:

\*\*Email Gateway / Email Forwarding / Phishing Protection  
\*\*MX 10 Your custom MX Record (from customer portal) or mx1.mailhop.org  
MX 20 mx1.mailhop.us  
MX 30 mx1.mailhop.co  
MX 40 mx1.mailhop.co.uk

\*\*Backup MX  
\*\*MX 5 Your current mx record, this is your current email server  
MX 10 Your custom MX Record (from customer portal) or mx2.mailhop.org  
MX 20 mx2.mailhop.us  
MX 30 mx2.mailhop.co  
MX 40 mx2.mailhop.co.uk

![Brad Slavin](https://media.mailhop.org/dmarcreport/images/team/brad-slavin.jpg) 

Brad Slavin 

General Manager

General Manager at DuoCircle. Product strategy and commercial lead across the email security portfolio.

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