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Yes. DNS shows it should be redirecting to leavemealone.helpkit.so but it actually redirects to dinkydani.gitbook.io

help.leavemealone.com. is a CNAME to leavemealone.helpkit.so which again is a CNAME to helpkit-ssr.onrender.com. and so forth till you get the A records. Your browser then connects to that IP and there you get the 302 redirect. I'm still not sure what I should see here.

EDIT: This is a CNAME chain and although it's not recommended it's valid https://serverfault.com/a/309660

The A records that you've gotten to are unrelated to Gitbook and there are no 302 redirects on our side. As far as I understand it's some internal redirect happening in Cloudflare's network.

You can read more info here: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/dns-subdomain-no-longer-w...

Thanks for the explanation. I still don't know exactly what's going on here. How do the DNS records look on the Cloudflare UI?

help.leavemealone.app -> CNAME -> help.leavemealone.com -> CNAME -> leavemealone.helpkit.so

Gitbook is nowhere in the chain

Then you have to ask helpkit.so why they are using render.com to do the redirect.

The request is never hitting HelpKit's servers.

But it's hitting their DNS zone and they have decided to add a CNAME to helpkit-ssr.onrender.com for leavemealone.helpkit.so.

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