My domain is: http://stage1.businesstagebuch.de/ I followed the guide: https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntufocal-nginx Before I ran that command, I stopped Nginx I ran this command: sudo certbot certonly --standalone It produced this output: Obtaining a new certificate Performing the fol…

Hi all, April 30, 2020 18:17 UTC [Monitoring] We observed elevated validation failures, which affected certificate issuance, from approximately 16:00-18:05 UTC. We believe we’ve resolved the underlying issue, and are continuing to investigate and monitor. From: https://letsencrypt.status.io/ Pl…

I’m having same issue. https://letsdebug.net/ says this is likely tied to the planned maintenance window that is currently in place.

Hi @MBurchard [image] MBurchard: Detail: During secondary validation is the key. Read [image] ACME v1/v2: Validating challenges from multiple network vantage points API Announcements O… So the primary Letsencrypt server is able to find your A-record. Some of…

[image] JuergenAuer: So the primary Letsencrypt server is able to find your A-record. Some of the secondary servers are blocked. Thank you for explanation, but I have not blocked anything. There is no Firewall, no failban and no .htaccess at all... It's just a very fresh Ubuntu 20.04 instal…

Before check the forum more user are having the same issue.

Yup. Seems to be happening all of a sudden to a lot of people, myself included.

[image] MBurchard: It’s just a very fresh Ubuntu 20.04 installation Please read the error. It's not possible to find an A-record. So your dns server may have a firewall, not your local webserver.

The problem was fixed for me right now

I am having the same issue. I use LetsEncrypt constantly. Just used it yesterday, but now all of a sudden I’m getting this error. No firewall.

[image] JuergenAuer: Please read the error. It’s not possible to find an A-record. So your dns server may have a firewall, not your local webserver. Before telling someone they're wrong, perhaps you should test yourself? The OP was getting the exact error I was. I pursued it through LetsDe…

During secondary validation: DNS problem: query timed out looking up A

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jsha May 7, 2020, 10:44pm 21

Hi @niyawe, welcome to the community!

We rolled out a config change last week that caused some errors similar to this one. We’ve rolled back that change now.

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