Custom domain not activating after 3 days – DNS verified
roeilevav
HOBBYOP

2 months ago

project c795ebfa-3486-412a-96db-8055a15c6ef1

The domain has been correctly pointed to Railway for over 72 hours and still shows “Waiting for DNS update” in the dashboard.

Current DNS state (verified from multiple resolvers):

• A record for → 76.76.21.21

• Verified via GoDaddy, Google (8.8.8.8), and Cloudflare (1.1.1.1)

• dig consistently resolves correctly

• TTL is 600 seconds

The Railway app itself is running and accessible via the Railway-provided URL, so deployment is healthy.

Given the above, it appears the DNS is fully propagated and this may be a domain verification / cache issue on Railway’s side.

Can Railway re-trigger domain verification, or manually refresh the domain status on your end?

Thanks a lot for the help!

$10 Bounty

1 Replies

You need to add a CNAME record provided by Railway when adding your custom domain. You should not be adding A records.

Additionally, if you're using your root domain, you should be adding both @ and www DNS records.

I would suggest using Cloudflare's DNS to minimize any possible issues, such as the one where certain providers don't support CNAME flattening.


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