Challenge Failed but nginx say its ok

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My domain is: whatssapp.contadigital.mx

I ran this command:
sudo certbot certonly --webroot -w /var/www/certbot -d whatssapp.contadigital.mx --dry-run

It produced this output:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Requesting a certificate for whatssapp.contadigital.mx

Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: webroot). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
Domain: whatssapp.contadigital.mx
Type: connection
Detail: During secondary validation: 20.185.232.218: Fetching http://whatssapp.contadigital.mx/.well-known/acme-challenge/Cc9urEYxpkcsM6SrczfIxsMYIMfjKMol1hjC0LuMdhA: Timeout during connect (likely firewall problem)

Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to download the temporary challenge files created by Certbot. Ensure that the listed domains serve their content from the provided --webroot-path/-w and that files created there can be downloaded from the internet.

Some challenges have failed.

My web server is (include version):
nginx

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
ubuntun

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
azure vm

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):
everything from console

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot):
2.9.0

The nginx access.log generate is

10.2.2.6 - - [29/Sep/2025:17:31:48 +0000] "GET /.well-known/acme-challenge/8YBOUQ6fcEGe0u21SabCTtJo1cMmabII3VgUquXCtTE HTTP/1.1" 200 87 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Let's Encrypt validation server; +https://www.letsencrypt.org)"
10.2.2.6 - - [29/Sep/2025:17:31:49 +0000] "GET /.well-known/acme-challenge/8YBOUQ6fcEGe0u21SabCTtJo1cMmabII3VgUquXCtTE HTTP/1.1" 200 87 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Let's Encrypt validation server; +https://www.letsencrypt.org)"
10.2.2.6 - - [29/Sep/2025:17:31:49 +0000] "GET /.well-known/acme-challenge/8YBOUQ6fcEGe0u21SabCTtJo1cMmabII3VgUquXCtTE HTTP/1.1" 200 87 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Let's Encrypt validation server; +https://www.letsencrypt.org)"

3 Request or file of validation and cerbot send "ailed to download the temporary challenge files" some idea

Thanks advanced

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The "secondary validation" in the error usually means you are blocking certain geographic regions from accessing your domain. And, using this test site shows that you are: Check website performance and response : Check host - online website monitoring

Let's Encrypt validates from a number of world-wide locations. You must be blocking one or more of these locations. Below is an excellent article about that and suggests options for you

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thank your are right

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