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My domain is: habiboto.com

I ran this command: 1) sudo certbot --apache ] Another command here [ sudo certbot certonly --cert-name habiboto.com -d habiboto.com -d www.habiboto.com

It produced this output:
:~# sudo certbot --apache
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
Enter email address (used for urgent renewal and security notices) (Enter 'c' to
cancel): XXXX@YYYYY.com
An unexpected error occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 159, in _new_conn
conn = connection.create_connection(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 61, in create_connection
for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, socket.SOCK_STREAM):
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/socket.py", line 918, in getaddrinfo
for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
socket.gaierror: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 665, in urlopen
httplib_response = self._make_request(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 376, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 996, in _validate_conn
conn.connect()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 314, in connect
conn = self._new_conn()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 171, in _new_conn
raise NewConnectionError(
urllib3.exceptions.NewConnectionError: <urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f81e1712a60>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 439, in send
resp = conn.urlopen(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 719, in urlopen
retries = retries.increment(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 436, in increment
raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /directory (Cau sed by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f81e1712a60>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -3] T emporary failure in name resolution'))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /directory ( Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f81e1712a60>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -3 ] Temporary failure in name resolution'))
Please see the logfiles in /var/log/letsencrypt for more details.

My web server is (include version): Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu)

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Unbuntu 20.04

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

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): Putty

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): certbot 0.40.0

Hi @tariksims, and welcome to the LE community forum :slight_smile:

This is NOT a blocked domain:

It seems there may be a DNS problem within your system or your DNS provider.
Please show:
cat /etc/resolv.conf

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# See man:systemd-resolved.service(8) for details about the supported modes of
# operation for /etc/resolv.conf.

nameserver 127.0.0.53
options edns0 trust-ad
search habiboto.com localhost

I added 3 other nameservers 3x [nameserver XXX.xxx.XXX.xxx ] into this min config, but the issue is still the same!!!?
Any ideas pls on how I can fix my issue??

Thank you!

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I would test each of those DNS servers and only use those that work.

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Thank you for your feedback.
I solved the issue by using a proper working name server and installed the needed SSL certificate.
Cheers!

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