Ocsp.int-x3.letsencrypt.org is not working in China

Our CDN provider shares the conclusion other folks on this thread have reached, that it appears to be a problem caused by the Great Firewall interfering with DNS. We probably cannot work around this issue on our end.

A couple of possible workarounds for clients that you control:

If you configure a different DNS resolver for the affected devices (like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8) do you get the correct IP address, or do the responses get rewritten / blocked?

If those response are rewritten / blocked, do you have the option of using DNS-over-HTTPS to a DNS resolver server that gets the correct IP address for our OCSP responder?

Thanks,
Jacob

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