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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:
michaelblack.photography
lafamillenoire.com

I ran this command:
sudo certbot --apache

It produced this output:
Which names would you like to activate HTTPS for?-------------------------------------------------------------------------------1: lafamillenoire.com
2: www.lafamillenoire.com
3: michaelblack.photography
4: www.michaelblack.photography

Select the appropriate numbers separated by commas and/or spaces, or leave input
blank to select all options shown (Enter ‘c’ to cancel):


You have an existing certificate that contains a portion of the domains yourequested (ref: /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/lafamillenoire.com.conf)

It contains these names: lafamillenoire.com

You requested these names for the new certificate: lafamillenoire.com,
www.lafamillenoire.com, michaelblack.photography, www.michaelblack.photography.

Do you want to expand and replace this existing certificate with the new
certificate?

(E)xpand/©ancel: e
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for lafamillenoire.com
http-01 challenge for www.lafamillenoire.com
http-01 challenge for michaelblack.photography
http-01 challenge for www.michaelblack.photography
Waiting for verification…
Cleaning up challenges
Failed authorization procedure. www.michaelblack.photography (http-01): urn:acme:error:connection :: The server could not connect to the client to verify the domain :: Fetching http://www.michaelblack.photography/.well-known/acme-challenge/EvlKuj4OrhA8cpNtAtXbrbePadsP85BPF93QH01t8JI: Timeout, michaelblack.photography (http-01): urn:acme:error:connection :: The server could not connect to the client to verify the domain :: Fetching http://michaelblack.photography/.well-known/acme-challenge/KSZQUBSHpWLZ7mDhewbbtOvhQ2BR_pjWVsxs0CUpzpE: Timeout

IMPORTANT NOTES:

My web server is (include version): Apache 2.4.18

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): 16.04.4

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: a box in my closet

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

I was able to obtain a certificate for the first site lafamillenoire.com but when I try to expand to a second domain, the second domain times out. I’m not sure where to start to look for troubleshooting.

lafamillenoire.com.        (unsigned)  604760  A     73.65.188.65
michaelblack.photography.  (unsigned)  1761    A     73.65.188.65
michaelblack.photography.  (unsigned)  3561    AAAA  2601:681:8003:33fe:bdbf:9f3e:fc4f:7565

The second domain has an IPv6 address, but connecting to it using HTTP times out. You need to fix it, or correct or remove the AAAA record.

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Thanks! That fixed it. I had an A record pointing to IPv4 and a AAA record pointing to an IPv6 both in the second domain. I simply deleted the AAA and things are moving again.

Out of curiosity, how did you find out that information about my domains for future debugging references?

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