Cloudflare Zero Trust DNS Script Fails to Resolve CNAME to IP
A shell script for updating Cloudflare Zero Trust DNS policies fails when the target domain is a CNAME rather than an A record — it passes the canonical name string instead of resolving it to the underlying IP address. This causes the Cloudflare API to reject the input with an invalid CIDR error. The issue affects network administrators using CNAME-based failover setups for multi-WAN configurations.
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