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Clarify additional option
Some users might want to use Cloudflare as public primary and their DNS infrastructure as hidden secondary for DR purposes. Clarify that this is also possible.
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Using the information from your secondary DNS provider, [create NS records](/dns/manage-dns-records/how-to/create-dns-records/#create-dns-records) on your zone apex listing your secondary nameservers.
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By default, Cloudflare ignores NS records added to the zone apex. To modify this behavior, enable [multi-provider DNS](/dns/nameservers/nameserver-options/#multi-provider-dns):
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By default, Cloudflare ignores NS records added to the zone apex. To modify this behavior, enable [multi-provider DNS](/dns/nameservers/nameserver-options/#multi-provider-dns).
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If your account [zone defaults](/dns/additional-options/dns-zone-defaults/) are already defined to have **Multi-provider DNS** enabled, this step may not be necessary.
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In case you want to keep Cloudflare as the only public Primary, do not enable multi-provider DNS. In this way, your secondary DNS is kept hidden and up-to-date with the Cloudflare primary, as a backup option for disaster recovery scenarios.
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## 6. Enable outgoing zone transfers
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When you enable outgoing zone transfers, this will send a DNS NOTIFY message to your secondary DNS provider.

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