# Error: rateLimited :: There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new registration :: Too many registrations from this IP

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/error-ratelimited-there-were-too-many-requests-of-a-given-type-error-creating-new-registration-too-many-registrations-from-this-ip/2125>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [October 25, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/error-ratelimited-there-were-too-many-requests-of-a-given-type-error-creating-new-registration-too-many-registrations-from-this-ip/2125 "2015-10-25T22:51:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![randy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/randy/32/1214_2.png) [@randy](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/randy)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/error-ratelimited-there-were-too-many-requests-of-a-given-type-error-creating-new-registration-too-many-registrations-from-this-ip/2125/1 "2015-10-25T22:51:03Z")

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new host trying to register, gets

```
Error: rateLimited :: There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new registration :: Too many registrations from this IP

```

it’s a freebsd 10.1, but i have successfully registered two others. the name(s) are allegedly white listed.

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**Author:** ![Archer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/archer/32/142_2.png) [@Archer](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Archer)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/error-ratelimited-there-were-too-many-requests-of-a-given-type-error-creating-new-registration-too-many-registrations-from-this-ip/2125/2 "2015-10-25T23:17:30Z")

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Hi Randy,

I believe there is a rate limit of 2 registrations per week at this time, you might have to wait a bit.

–…Archer

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**Author:** ![randy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/randy/32/1214_2.png) [@randy](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/randy)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/error-ratelimited-there-were-too-many-requests-of-a-given-type-error-creating-new-registration-too-many-registrations-from-this-ip/2125/3 "2015-10-25T23:38:45Z")

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ok. but perhaps the diagnostic could be improved?

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**Author:** ![randy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/randy/32/1214_2.png) [@randy](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/randy)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/error-ratelimited-there-were-too-many-requests-of-a-given-type-error-creating-new-registration-too-many-registrations-from-this-ip/2125/4 "2015-11-03T05:52:46Z")

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i am now ten days out and can not register a whitelisted name

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**Author:** ![dlpage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@dlpage](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/dlpage)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 11:17am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/error-ratelimited-there-were-too-many-requests-of-a-given-type-error-creating-new-registration-too-many-registrations-from-this-ip/2125/5 "2015-12-04T11:17:06Z")

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I got the Too many registrations from this IP on my first attempt after installing the Letsencrypt wrapper from github on my own dedicated server with it’s own dedicated IP address!

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**Author:** ![mkdotcom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@mkdotcom](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/mkdotcom)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/error-ratelimited-there-were-too-many-requests-of-a-given-type-error-creating-new-registration-too-many-registrations-from-this-ip/2125/6 "2015-12-04T14:01:24Z")

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I have the same issue  
FIX :ssl was not enabled it seems on my server, i did “a2enmod ssl” and it works 😄  
(a bit weird I had this error log though?)

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**Author:** ![timhughes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/timhughes/32/2700_2.png) [@timhughes](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/timhughes)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/error-ratelimited-there-were-too-many-requests-of-a-given-type-error-creating-new-registration-too-many-registrations-from-this-ip/2125/7 "2015-12-04T20:20:00Z")

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Try turning off ipv6

The staff are working on the issue [https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/issues/1046](https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/issues/1046)

If you are on linux you can simply do

```auto
sudo sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1

```

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**Author:** ![ste616](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@ste616](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/ste616)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 8:21am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/error-ratelimited-there-were-too-many-requests-of-a-given-type-error-creating-new-registration-too-many-registrations-from-this-ip/2125/8 "2015-12-08T08:21:09Z")

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Thanks Tim, turning IPv6 off as you suggested solved this issue for me 😀