Error while attempting to generate certificate: NXDOMAIN looking up A for

Hi guys,

I’m getting the following message while attempting to generate a certificate for my nginx reverse proxy.

vinod@nginxproxy:~$ sudo certbot --nginx
[sudo] password for vinod:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator nginx, Installer nginx
No names were found in your configuration files. Please enter in your domain
name(s) (comma and/or space separated) (Enter ‘c’ to cancel): domain1.com
Obtaining a new certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for domain1.com
Waiting for verification…
Cleaning up challenges
Failed authorization procedure. domain1.com (http-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:dns :: DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up A for domain1.com

IMPORTANT NOTES:
-The following errors were reported by the server:

Domain: domain1.com
Type: None
Detail: DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up A for domain1.com

Im quite a newbie with certbot, can anyone point in the right direction?

What’s your domain? Apparently it isn’t registered, or doesn’t have any DNS records.

Or, if the request was for a subdomain, maybe that didn’t exist.


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My domain is:

I ran this command:

It produced this output:

My web server is (include version):

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know):

I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):

This is a bit concerning:

Are you familiar with NGINX?

Found out that the issue was due to my domain being not registered. Thanks for pointing that one out.

Guess there still some work to be done before i can generate the certs.

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