Failures while moving server

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My domain is:

I ran this command:
sudo certbot certonly
--dry-run
--email tomf@illuminosi.com
--agree-tos --manual-public-ip-logging-ok
-d illuminosi.com,www.illuminosi.com,mail.illuminosi.com
-d unifi.illuminosi.com,unvr-1.illuminosi.com,untangle.illuminosi.com
--deploy-hook /etc/letsencrypt/renewal-hooks/deploy/my-deploy

It produced this output:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Simulating renewal of an existing certificate for illuminosi.com and 5 more domains

Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: apache). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
Domain: illuminosi.com
Type: connection
Detail: 208.70.146.4: Fetching http://illuminosi.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/-LEiDPO3UXG4xbRQvstsucGCRc5BjDK8vI9BpjNeYPU: Connection refused

Domain: mail.illuminosi.com
Type: connection
Detail: 208.70.146.4: Fetching http://mail.illuminosi.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/e1wIV6RVuorp2-Lett0NRbYb8_B5JZ3-_d3C1hLMUXI: Connection refused

Domain: untangle.illuminosi.com
Type: connection
Detail: 208.70.146.4: Fetching http://untangle.illuminosi.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/hC9UWHa98AkfV1Pbtwmq8PMDkg8KNlE2PcUnbM1MtEc: Connection refused

Domain: unvr-1.illuminosi.com
Type: connection
Detail: 208.70.146.4: Fetching http://unvr-1.illuminosi.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/TD4-_1Bs_hMGXBMC_5NPGxoLX2t5_es2FGat4Skl61I: Connection refused

Domain: www.illuminosi.com
Type: connection
Detail: 208.70.146.4: Fetching http://www.illuminosi.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/KbqPUjIqBV8v1ElogqEKBg5cFwYMbqcw4fuetWr8SAE: Connection refused

Domain: unifi.illuminosi.com
Type: dns
Detail: DNS problem: SERVFAIL looking up A for unifi.illuminosi.com - the domain's nameservers may be malfunctioning; no valid AAAA records found for unifi.illuminosi.com

Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to verify the temporary Apache configuration changes made by Certbot. Ensure that the listed domains point to this Apache server and that it is accessible from the internet.

Error while running apache2ctl graceful.
httpd not running, trying to start
Action 'graceful' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.

Unable to restart apache using ['apache2ctl', 'graceful']
Encountered exception during recovery: certbot.errors.MisconfigurationError: Error while running apache2ctl graceful.
httpd not running, trying to start
Action 'graceful' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
Some challenges have failed.
Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. See the logfile /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.

My web server is (include version):
Apache/2.4.52

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Linux slim1.illuminosi.com 5.15.0-119-generic #129-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 2 19:25:20 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
N/A
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know):
Yes

I'm using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):
No, all is done by the command line

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot):
certbot 1.21.0

So I am trying to do a dry-run of certbot after changing my server IP. That is the only change I have made. What do I need to do in order to fix this?

Also, my apache has crashed and will not restart.

Fixed it- bad path to certs. Have new problem, will start new thread.

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