I am trying to confirm if this message is a DNS issue or a Let’s Encrypt server failure (that has happened before for other users):
- The following errors were reported by the server:
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DNS problem: query timed out looking up A for <domain>
Can someone tell me from which IP address ranges does Let’s Encrypt make these queries?. I am testing using https://dnschecker.org/ and responses seems OK from around the world. The DNS provider for the domain I am experiencing this problem is one of those shared hosting servers that like to ban IPs too frequently, so I am inclined to think it is their problem, but want to have this information in order to open a new ticket with them.
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My domain is:
I ran this command:
It produced this output:
My web server is (include version):
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or 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):
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot):
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
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Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/smtp.policlinicalaarboleda.com.conf
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Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing...
Plugins selected: Authenticator webroot, Installer None
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for smtp.policlinicalaarboleda.com
Waiting for verification...
Challenge failed for domain smtp.policlinicalaarboleda.com
http-01 challenge for smtp.policlinicalaarboleda.com
Cleaning up challenges
Attempting to renew cert (smtp.policlinicalaarboleda.com) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/smtp.policlinicalaarboleda.com.conf produced an unexpected error: Some challenges have failed.. Skipping.
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/smtp.policlinicalaarboleda.com/fullchain.pem (failure)
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All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/smtp.policlinicalaarboleda.com/fullchain.pem (failure)
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1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- The following errors were reported by the server:
Domain: smtp.policlinicalaarboleda.com
Type: dns
Detail: DNS problem: query timed out looking up A for
smtp.policlinicalaarboleda.com
My web server is: Apache httpd-2.4.6
The operating system my web server runs on is: CentOS 7
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: http://caracashosting.com, This hosting is only for the DNS and some static webpages, not for the server that is running this SMTP and HTTP Server
I can login to a root shell on my machine: yes
I’m using a control panel to manage my site: no:
The version of my client is: 0.39.0
Note:
I am pretty sure the problem is related to the DNS hosting provider, it is not the first time they ban things they shouldn’t, but I have no control of it, my customer decission to continue using it. The IP address range would have been useful to tell them to be more careful, but sadly, as you say, those aren’t published.
Thanks for your reply. This will help me to tell them again to move entirely to another provider. I don’t have faith they will do it, but another confirmation like this that it is very bad is welcomed.