Certbot renew failing dns problem

Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. https://crt.sh/?q=example.com), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secrecy, but only makes it harder for us to provide help.

My domain is:
alleninvestmentsllc.com www.alleninvestmentsllc.com

I ran this command:
sudo certbot renew --debug-challenges

It produced this output:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log


Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/alleninvestmentsllc.com.conf


Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing…
Found credentials in shared credentials file: ~/.aws/credentials
Plugins selected: Authenticator dns-route53, Installer None
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
dns-01 challenge for alleninvestmentsllc.com
dns-01 challenge for www.alleninvestmentsllc.com
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): route53.amazonaws.com
Waiting 10 seconds for DNS changes to propagate
Waiting for verification…


Challenges loaded. Press continue to submit to CA. Pass “-v” for more info about
challenges.


Cleaning up challenges
Resetting dropped connection: route53.amazonaws.com
Attempting to renew cert (alleninvestmentsllc.com) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/alleninvestmentsllc.com.conf produced an unexpected error: Failed authorization procedure. alleninvestmentsllc.com (dns-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:dns :: DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up TXT for _acme-challenge.alleninvestmentsllc.com - check that a DNS record exists for this domain, www.alleninvestmentsllc.com (dns-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:dns :: DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up TXT for _acme-challenge.www.alleninvestmentsllc.com - check that a DNS record exists for this domain. Skipping.
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/alleninvestmentsllc.com/fullchain.pem (failure)


All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/alleninvestmentsllc.com/fullchain.pem (failure)


1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

  • The following errors were reported by the server:

    Domain: alleninvestmentsllc.com
    Type: None
    Detail: DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up TXT for
    _acme-challenge.alleninvestmentsllc.com - check that a DNS record
    exists for this domain

    Domain: www.alleninvestmentsllc.com
    Type: None
    Detail: DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up TXT for
    _acme-challenge.www.alleninvestmentsllc.com - check that a DNS
    record exists for this domain

My web server is (include version):
apache2 -v
Server version: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
Server built: 2019-10-08T13:31:25

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Linux ip-172-26-13-86 4.4.0-1098-aws #109-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 8 09:30:18 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
aws lightsail

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know):
yes

I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):
no

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot):
certbot 0.31.0

When I run it, I see that the dns TXT entries were created.

1 Like

That domain is using GoDaddy’s DNS service, not Route 53.

1 Like

Oh my, thanks. I guess I forgot the domain was still there. I wonder how I initially got the cert created. Oh well, thank you.

1 Like

This topic was automatically closed 30 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.