Traefik / cloudflare local.example.com zone not found

[sirwittles]

Quick question if anyone is having issues as of late with cloudflare / traefik renewing certs. I setup my traefik config back from the original video tutorial 4+ years ago and it has been rock solid. The other day I noticed my certs are all expired and see these new logs pertaining to my internal local domain. Is anyone aware of any breaking changes that caused this and any workarounds?

docker logs traefik
time="2026-04-05T09:02:35-07:00" level=info msg="Configuration loaded from file: /traefik.yml"
time="2026-04-05T09:02:39-07:00" level=error msg="Unable to obtain ACME certificate for domains ".local.example.com" : unable to generate a certificate for the domains [.local.example.com]: error: one or more domains had a problem:\n[.local.example.com] [.local.example.com] acme: error presenting token: cloudflare: failed to find zone local.example.com.: zone could not be found\n" providerName=cloudflare.acme

My cloudflare domain is setup under example.com and has been working for years. The message is correct that local.example.com does not exist as a zone, but it had never been an issue before.