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Sorry for the confusion. The command you want is: certbot renew --dry-run [image] alabamatoy: the precise command directed by jsha doesn’t work? Got a link to where you saw that? The forum is quite busy at the moment and I can't seem to find it :slight_smile:

[image] jmorahan: Got a link to where you saw that? The forum is quite busy at the moment and I can’t seem to find it :slight_smile: [image] March 13, 2019: End-of-Life for All TLS-SNI-01 Validation Support API Announcements T…

Ah. In that post @jsha is talking about an upcoming change. If you want to try a test renewal now you should use this instead: certbot renew --dry-run --preferred-challenges http-01,dns-01

[image] jmorahan: In that post @jsha is talking about an upcoming change. A change in the staging server, yes. Nontheless, the certbot command presented by @jsha doesn't work without an actual run or renew command.

Its from a link in the message I received yesterday, link is https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/february-13-2019-end-of-life-for-all-tls-sni-01-validation-support/74209

certbot renew --dry-run seems to work. So now I run it without the --dry-run right? I appreciate yalls patience with me.

[image] alabamatoy: certbot renew --dry-run seems to work. So now I run it without the --dry-run right? What do you want to accomplish? The post from @jsha clearly states the change will be activated on next Tuesday. So anything you test know could possibly be very different on Tuesday.

Just running certbot renew --dry-run won't tell you anything useful just yet - that's what's coming on Tuesday. If you want to do an equivalent test now you should run this instead: [image] jmorahan: certbot renew --dry-run --preferred-challenges http-01,dns-01 Does that work? If so, you sh…

A successful dry run a few minutes ago could have cached TLS-SNI authorizations, though. :grimacing:

[image] jmorahan: certbot renew --dry-run --preferred-challenges http-01,dns-01 I get (among other output): Congratulations, all renewals succeeded. Respectfully, the message that was sent yesterday resulted in confusion. I suspect yall are getting lots of responses from people like me who …

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