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:
Badbird5907.net
I ran this command:
sudo certbot --apache
It produced this output:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
No names were found in your configuration files. Please enter in your domain
name(s) (comma and/or space separated) (Enter ‘c’ to cancel): badbird5907.net
Obtaining a new certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for badbird5907.net
Enabled Apache rewrite module
Waiting for verification…
Cleaning up challenges
Failed authorization procedure. badbird5907.net (http-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:dns :: DNS problem: SERVFAIL looking up A for badbird5907.net - the domain’s nameservers may be malfunctioning
IMPORTANT NOTES:
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- The following errors were reported by the server:*
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Domain: badbird5907.net*
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Type: None*
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Detail: DNS problem: SERVFAIL looking up A for badbird5907.net -*
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the domain’s nameservers may be malfunctioning*
My web server is (include version):
Apache2
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Ubuntu 18.04LTS
My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
Google Cloud
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