Error while issuing certificates for a domain using acme DNS challenge

ah, it's discourse again. I'll never get used to this system and its handling of text pasted without backticks.

Anyway, looking back at my test of one hour ago:

dig _acme-challenge.chicagotraffictracker.com TXT
; <<>> DiG 9.11.3-1ubuntu1.7-Ubuntu <<>> _acme-challenge.chicagotraffictracker.com TXT
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 21798
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

and just now:

dig _acme-challenge.chicagotraffictracker.com TXT

; <<>> DiG 9.11.3-1ubuntu1.7-Ubuntu <<>> _acme-challenge.chicagotraffictracker.com TXT
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5581
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;_acme-challenge.chicagotraffictracker.com. IN TXT

;; ANSWER SECTION:
_acme-challenge.chicagotraffictracker.com. 1800	IN CNAME _acme-challenge.ekicocvalidation.com.
_acme-challenge.ekicocvalidation.com. 599 IN TXT ""

it's probably safe to say that the problem is solved now

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