Custom domain stuck at "Validating Ownership" / DNS shows REQUIRES_UPDATE despite correct DNS
debasishsadangi452-coder
FREEOP

23 days ago

Project: marvelous-delight (ID: bce2016b-007e-4e8f-9a90-48e2bd8428de)

Service: Venus-hiring- (ID: 57ce8e46-4dcd-4521-8060-78ac4dfc249b)

Environment: production (ID: 2bfc5d22-b90b-4acd-9e61-0b57beb092f4)

Two custom domains on this service have been stuck for [X hours] at:

DNS record status: REQUIRES_UPDATE

Certificate status: VALIDATING_OWNERSHIP

Domains affected:

venushiring.com — required CNAME target favo9ker.up.railway.app

www.venushiring.com — required CNAME target 5ikg4zid.up.railway.app

I've independently confirmed via DNS-over-HTTPS (cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query) that DNS is correctly configured on both:

venushiring.com resolves (via Cloudflare's CNAME flattening) to 69.46.46.124

www.venushiring.com CNAME correctly resolves to 5ikg4zid.up.railway.app

Both _railway-verify ownership TXT records resolve with the exact tokens Railway's domain status API expects

Both DNS records are set to "DNS only" (not proxied) in Cloudflare

Despite this, railway domain status for both domains still reports the DNS as unmatched and ownership as unverified, with no change over [X hours]. railway domain certificate retry isn't usable since status hasn't reached a failed state.

Can you check what's blocking re-verification on your end, or manually trigger a recheck for these two domains?

Solved

1 Replies

Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway • 23 days ago


23 days ago

Your apex domain is verified, the ownership TXT is correct, and HTTP requests reach our edge. The certificate is stuck at ownership validation despite verification passing, which is a state that needs to be cleared on our side.

For the www subdomain, our checks currently show the CNAME pointing to a non-Railway host rather than the expected Railway target. If you recently migrated from another provider, the old CNAME target may still be cached. Please verify in your DNS provider's dashboard that the www record points to the target shown in your service's networking settings.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response brody • 23 days ago


Railway
BOT

16 days ago

This thread has been marked as solved automatically due to a lack of recent activity. Please re-open this thread or create a new one if you require further assistance. Thank you!

Status changed to Solved Railway • 16 days ago


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