Certbot fails to find A record for new subdomain

My domain is: seirdy.one, www.seirdy.one, staging.seirdy.one, libravatar.seirdy.one

I recently added a new subdomain: libravatar.seirdy.one. With dig, I have verified that it has the correct A and AA records; I am even able to make successful unencrypted HTTP requests to it from a client that doesn't support HSTS headers.

Next, I tried to expand my LE cert to include it with certbot. The TTL was set to half an hour, but my issues persist well after that duration.

I ran this command: sudo certbot certonly --domain seirdy.one --domain www.seirdy.one --domain staging.seirdy.one --domain libravatar.seridy.one --key-type ecdsa --dry-run

It produced this output:

Simulating renewal of an existing certificate for seirdy.one and 3 more domains
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for libravatar.seridy.one
http-01 challenge for seirdy.one
http-01 challenge for staging.seirdy.one
http-01 challenge for www.seirdy.one
Using default addresses 80 and [::]:80 ipv6only=on for authentication.
Waiting for verification...
Challenge failed for domain libravatar.seridy.one
http-01 challenge for libravatar.seridy.one
Cleaning up challenges
Some challenges have failed.

IMPORTANT NOTES:
 - The following errors were reported by the server:

   Domain: libravatar.seridy.one
   Type:   dns
   Detail: DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up A for
   libravatar.seridy.one - check that a DNS record exists for this
   domain

My web server is: Nginx 1.19.10

The operating system my web server runs on is: Fedora 33 (Cloud Edition)

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Digitalocean

I can login to a root shell on my machine: Yes

I'm using a control panel to manage my site: No

The version of my client is: certbot 1.14.0

Thanks!

Hi,

I think you misspelled the domain part of the new subdomain... It's seirdy.one not seridy.one :joy:

Thank you

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holy crap. Thanks. I spent so long trying to fix this, and it was one dumb typo in the CLI.

Thanks!!

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