# Patch certbot to support IP address

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/patch-certbot-to-support-ip-address/124167>\
**Category:** Client dev\
**Created:** [May 28, 2020, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/patch-certbot-to-support-ip-address/124167 "2020-05-28T23:34:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![orangepizza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/orangepizza/32/19597_2.png) [@orangepizza](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/orangepizza)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/patch-certbot-to-support-ip-address/124167/1 "2020-05-28T23:34:33Z")

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> <https://github.com/certbot/certbot/pull/8029>

  
currently not to really update certbot to able to use (it will cause massive load to this forum if certbot update said it support ip but to blocked by let’s encrpt), but update acme package for unit testing in boulder.  
and need csr better parser to extract ipv6 address (colon used in two context)

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**Author:** ![orangepizza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/orangepizza/32/19597_2.png) [@orangepizza](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/orangepizza)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 5:29am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/patch-certbot-to-support-ip-address/124167/2 "2020-05-30T05:29:05Z")

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support for ipv6 address are added  
currently it does not block user request for IP addresses: should I cover this behind some kind of command argument? @bmw

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 5:31am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/patch-certbot-to-support-ip-address/124167/3 "2020-06-29T05:31:23Z")

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