LetsEncrypt Certbot Not detecting IP

My domain is:
antoniswebsite.hopto.org
I ran this command:
certbot certonly --standalone
It produced this output:

Please enter in your domain name(s) (comma and/or space separated) (Enter 'c'
to cancel): antoniswebsite.hopto.org
Requesting a certificate for antoniswebsite.hopto.org
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for antoniswebsite.hopto.org
Waiting for verification...
Challenge failed for domain antoniswebsite.hopto.org
http-01 challenge for antoniswebsite.hopto.org
Cleaning up challenges
Some challenges have failed.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
The following errors were reported by the server:

Domain: antoniswebsite.hopto.org
Type: dns
Detail: No valid IP addresses found for antoniswebsite.hopto.org

My web server is (include version):
Apache 2.4.46
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Windows 10 Home 20H2
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):
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):
No
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot):
Certbot 1.12.0

I have a valid A record toward' s my web server. I have tried both public and private ip addresses. I have also tried some other authentication plugins but they do not work as well. My domain provider is No-Ip so I cannot add TXT records.
Any help would be appreciated.

Hi @swanserquack

that's

D:\temp>nslookup antoniswebsite.hopto.org.
Name: antoniswebsite.hopto.org
Address: 192.168.56.1

not a public visible ip address, that's only a private ip address.

A public ip address is required if you want to use http validation.

I have changed it to my public ip and I get:
IMPORTANT NOTES:
The following errors were reported by the server:

Domain: antoniswebsite.hopto.org
Type: connection
Detail: Fetching
http://antoniswebsite.hopto.org/.well-known/acme-challenge/vZ028twCg8rEPF1gvfiN-xMytJKfTpyzChq5lPs0Z88:
Timeout during connect (likely firewall problem)

And what's now your question?

There

is your error, fix that.

Thanks for your help. Forgot to setup port forwarding.

Yep, that's required. Happy to read you found the solution :+1: