Problem with Let's Encrypt DNS Servers?

Issuance Tech
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I’m having trouble getting a certificate issued because the DNS query for my domain is timing out. I’ve triple checked that my domain is fine, and resolvable everywhere I try except by letsencrypt.org. Is there a problem with the letsencrypt.org domain servers?

I’m using certbot 0.11.1 on Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS with Nginx 1.10.0.

$ sudo certbot certonly --webroot --webroot-path=/var/www/html -d www.0211.us
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org
Obtaining a new certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for www.0211.us
Using the webroot path /var/www/html for all unmatched domains.
Waiting for verification...
Cleaning up challenges
Failed authorization procedure. www.0211.us (http-01): urn:acme:error:connection :: The server could not connect to the client to verify the domain :: DNS problem: query timed out looking up A for www.0211.us

IMPORTANT NOTES:
 - The following errors were reported by the server:

   Domain: www.0211.us
   Type:   connection
   Detail: DNS problem: query timed out looking up A for www.0211.us

And now I’ve retried several times and I’m getting

There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new authz :: Too many invalid authorizations recently.`
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Same here!
Domain: gestion.tamsoftware.info
Type: connection
Detail: DNS problem: query timed out looking up A for
gestion.tamsoftware.info

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Experiencing similar with a .name TLD domain

urn:acme:error:connection :: The server could not connect to the client to verify the domain :: DNS problem: query timed out looking up A for

I am able to use --staging without issue.

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same with a .ma domain as well, so it doesn’t seem to be domain-dependant. I’ve managed to lock myself out of tries for the first one already …

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@cpu, we’re seeing a number of these reports in at least two different forum threads today.

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Just another mee too post… .co.uk domain

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Same here. Swedish domains.

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Seems fixed from here now - got my two certificates issued without DNS issues (.info and .ma)

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Whatever the problem was, it is resolved for me as of Mon May 1 23:51:09 UTC 2017.

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There was an operational incident yesterday affecting some traffic. There's a status page update in the history now.

Thanks everyone for flagging the problem. Apologies about the disruption.

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