Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. crt.sh | example.com), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secrecy, but only makes it harder for us to provide help.
My domain is:
-d sermon-archive.info,
-d www.sermon-archive.info,
-d master.sermon-archive.info,
-d mail.sermon-archive.info,
-d www.sasa-web.net,
-d sasa-web.net,
-d www.steveandconnielarson.com,
-d steveandconnielarson.com
I ran this command:
certbot -v certonly --issuance-timeout 600 --webroot -w /www --dry-run
-d www.sermon-archive.info
-d mail.sermon-archive.info
-d www.sasa-web.net
-d sasa-web.net
-d www.sermon-archive.info
-d www.steveandconnielarson.com
It produced this output:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator webroot, Installer None
Simulating a certificate request for www.sermon-archive.info and 4 more domains
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for mail.sermon-archive.info
http-01 challenge for sasa-web.net
http-01 challenge for www.sasa-web.net
http-01 challenge for www.sermon-archive.info
http-01 challenge for www.steveandconnielarson.com
Using the webroot path /www for all unmatched domains.
Waiting for verification...
Challenge failed for domain www.sasa-web.net
Challenge failed for domain www.sermon-archive.info
http-01 challenge for www.sasa-web.net
http-01 challenge for www.sermon-archive.info
Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: webroot). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
Domain: www.sasa-web.net
Type: connection
Detail: During secondary validation: 47.181.130.121: Fetching http://www.sasa-web.net/.well-known/acme-challenge/bfqe3p1IDggn5y30VX1MebfwqiJK609zZufzsdA_wMI: Timeout during connect (likely firewall problem)
Domain: www.sermon-archive.info
Type: connection
Detail: 47.181.130.121: Fetching http://www.sermon-archive.info/.well-known/acme-challenge/lsml6VX04o9LVl9JI6MpZZsuABYIw1NO9dReENc-ByU: Timeout during connect (likely firewall problem)
Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to download the temporary challenge files created by Certbot. Ensure that the listed domains serve their content from the provided --webroot-path/-w and that files created there can be downloaded from the internet.
Cleaning up challenges
Some challenges have failed.
Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. See the logfile /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.
My web server is (include version):
WN-2.6.4
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
FreeBSD 15.0
My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
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 4.2.0
If I leave out www.sermon-archive.info and www.sasa-web.net then the dry-run completes successfully. Tcpdump shows that the web server is sending the proper challenge file and the certbot server is acknowledging it. There is less than one second between the HTTP request and the response.
This problem was encountered because the files I previously used to create/renew the certificates got lost and I am trying re-create it.
I must have something wrong because this has worked for many years.