Sorry for the false alarm, the issue seems to be that these requests take too much time > 2minutes. I guess it is some network issue, rather LetsEncrypt. Thanks a lot.
[root@prod1 ~]# time curl https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
{
“B9GMAHh9hjQ”: “Adding random entries to the directory”,
“key-change”: “https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/key-change”,
“meta”: {
“terms-of-service”: “https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.2-November-15-2017.pdf”
},
“new-authz”: “https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-authz”,
“new-cert”: “https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-cert”,
“new-reg”: “https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-reg”,
“revoke-cert”: “https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/revoke-cert”
}
real 2m6.353s
user 0m0.086s
sys 0m0.082s
[root@prod1 ~]# time curl https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
{
“EOHe1tFziCk”: “Adding random entries to the directory”,
“keyChange”: “https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/key-change”,
“meta”: {
“termsOfService”: “https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.2-November-15-2017.pdf”
},
“newAccount”: “https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-acct”,
“newNonce”: “https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-nonce”,
“newOrder”: “https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-order”,
“revokeCert”: “https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/revoke-cert”
}
real 2m6.450s
user 0m0.085s
sys 0m0.084s