No valid IP found

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My domain is:

I ran this command: sudo certbot certonly --standalone -d optimate.wenbinzhao.com

It produced this output:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator standalone, Installer None
Requesting a certificate for optimate.wenbinzhao.com
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for optimate.wenbinzhao.com
Waiting for verification...
Challenge failed for domain optimate.wenbinzhao.com
http-01 challenge for optimate.wenbinzhao.com
Cleaning up challenges
Some challenges have failed.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

My web server is (include version): standalone

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

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: local

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

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): certbot 1.13.0

Additional notes: I'm using a subdomain for a project in testing; I added an A Record pointing to the IP of the machine I'm testing the server on.

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Hi @wenbenz

please read your check result, ~~2,5 hours old - https://check-your-website.server-daten.de/?q=optimate.wenbinzhao.com

Y optimate.wenbinzhao.com

192.168.2.46
Warning: Private ip address found. No connection possible. There are two types of ip addresses: Worldwide unique, global addresses and private addresses. If you want that other users connect your domain, your domain must have minimal one A- (ipv4) or AAAA- (ipv6) entry with a global ip address. Check Private network - Wikipedia to understand the details: 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255: Class C - 256 private net, every with 256 addresses

A public visible ip address is required, not a private.

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Oh, right, that's in the private IP range. That's obviously not gonna work. Thanks.

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