Hello,
Auto renewal for our website stopped working and is not even working when done manually. Any suggestions? We have tried to open up the firewall to the servers router location but still not passing challenges.
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My web server is (include version):
Ubuntu 14.04
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know):
Yes
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot):
Hello RG,
Yes we are using Meraki Firewalls and have blocked specific countries like Russia, China, North Korea, UK
.
I have the forwarding rules already set as wide open in an attempt to establish a connection.
If you can’t time trigger the allows to match your challenge requests (highly likely), you might consider always allowing HTTP (from all IPs) and providing a simple responder to forward all requests to HTTPS (which can then be Geo-Location blocked) while excluding the challenge requests from the forwarding.
[Maybe all that should have been like 4 sentences - if you have any questions, just ask]
Hi RG,
Thanks for the update. I called Meraki and tried to verify that the specific ports we need are opened to establish connection. I’m very new “LetsEncrypt” SSL installations. Is there a command I use to renew the existing config? Or do we need to start from scratch?
I used command…
sudo /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto certonly --apache
and received …
Error creating new order :: too many failed authorizations recently: see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/
after a few attempts at changing ports on the firewall.
Not even sure which GoDaddy TXT is currently being used or if the existing was updated, is there a way to check?
Any suggestions is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Hi,
I got a reply from Meraki saying all i need to do is upload a new cert. Is there a way I can check the existing cert TXT? to compare to my TXT records to Godaddy?
Thanks RG,
I was able to solve the issue…
Looks like there are some servers on the “lets encrypt” side that wasn’t resolving with Meraki…
I had to temporarily allow ALL traffic for the sake of getting the cert installed. I was able to immediately establish connection and install the cert afterward.
