Is Cloudflare DNS Broken?

Question

Over the last few months I've found that it takes a lot longer to add new DNS records which are managed by Cloudflare DNS. I get that they are probably managing billions of records and writing these zone files in a scalable way isn't a simple problem; I expect there might be a minute delay, but it feels like I'm often waiting five to ten minutes which makes using certbot to get certificates a challenge.Today I'm adding records and double check the name and they don't show up in Google tools like https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/#TXT at all.Does anyone know if something is happening there?I check their self-reported status and nothing is reported:https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

xrd · Accepted Answer

An update: I was using certbot with an internal address, which explains why certbot certonly did not work when it uses a self-hosted web server and webroot. But, there is still definitely something weird about using preferred-challenge dns + manual mode, the acme-challenge TXT records do not show up in the Google dashboard.