I ran this command: certbot renew --dry-run It produced this output: Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: nginx). The Certificate Authority reported these problems: Domain: Type: serverInternal Detail: During s…

[image] bnobre: Detail: During secondary validation: Remote PerformValidation RPC failed That is an unusual error. Do you limit access to your server by country or geography? Because Let's Encrypt recently started using more points around the world to validate from. Seeing "Seconday valida…

[image] bnobre: Type: serverInternal Detail: During secondary validation: Remote PerformValidation RPC failed That's an internal error with Let's Encrypt's servers. Are you consistently getting it, or does it work if you try again?

[image] petercooperjr: Another report here: I'm getting same RPC failed error from my own test server using --dry-run

We've identified a change we made (to our own certs, doh!) has broken the secondary validation. We're going to roll that back now. This will break certbot --dry-run and certbot --staging (or other uses of staging) commands only -- you should be able to renew still otherwise

[image] mcpherrinm: identified a change we made (to our own certs, doh!) has broken the secondary validation For the staging environment only, correct?

Error: During secondary validation: Remote PerformValidation RPC failed

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petercooperjr July 4, 2024, 2:08am 5

Another report here:

I'm guessing that staging is down.

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