Challenge Failed error

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My domain is: cricketconnect.com

I ran this command: ./certbot-auto certonly --manual --preferred-challenges=dns --server https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory --agree-tos -d cricketconnects.com

It produced this output:Waiting for verification…
Challenge failed for domain cricketconnects.com
dns-01 challenge for cricketconnects.com
Cleaning up challenges
Some challenges have failed.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

  • The following errors were reported by the server:

    Domain: cricketconnects.com
    Type: dns
    Detail: DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up TXT for
    _acme-challenge.cricketconnects.com - check that a DNS record
    exists for this domain

My web server is (include version): NA

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

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

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

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

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot):certbot 0.39.0

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Hi @sureshkachwa

there is a check of your domain, ~~1,5 hours old - https://check-your-website.server-daten.de/?q=cricketconnects.com#txt (started a new check, the older check has two TXT entries, the newer only one).

There you see the problem.

You have created entries with _acme-challenge.cricketconnects.com. But your menu adds your domain name, so the domain name is duplicated.

Create only entries with _acme-challenge.

Should look like

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