I’m working on a peer-to-peer networking tool that uses Let’s Encrypt for establishing encrypted channels between devices over https (which would not be possible at all without Let’s Encrypt, so many thanks).
My service is not yet on the PSL, so I’ve been buying new domains to handle the testing and beta users coming onto the service.
I just set up telebit.site and on the very first attempt to get a certificate I got the familiar “too many certificates already issued for exact set of domains” error.
My guess is that there is some other type of limit that has been hit or some other sort of flag that has been raised and that I’m getting a misleading error message.
Hmmm… odd. That may be for the bare site, not the subdomain I was actually trying to register.
Nevertheless, the issues appears to be that I’ve used my email address with too many accounts (installing on different devices and “testing in production” - which is the only reliable way to test - I’ve registered over 20 domains).
{ "type": "urn:acme:error:rateLimited"
, "detail": "Error creating new cert :: Too many certificates already issued for: domain.tld"
, "status": 429
}
The error message is incorrect. It’s actually complaining due to too many uses of my email address to create new accounts. I changed the email and it worked just fine. Repeatable. Testable. Confirmable.