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Hi @bobbb23332 , This error suggests that your server can't make the necessary outgoing connection to the Let's Encrypt API server. Can you think of a reason why that could be? Is there any firewall or configuration that you would expect to be blocking outgoing connections from your server? Can you…

I commonly see such DNS resolving errors by misconfigured Docker instances.

[image] schoen: curl -v https://acme-v02.api.letsencryp.org/directory Could it be the EC2 instance? Does the EC2 have the ability to block these operations coming from this server? If so then maybe it can be a port forwarding issue I don't know. I checked security groups and ports 22, 80 and …

Oops, try again with the missing t in letsencrypt added?

Try it this way: curl -v https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory

I received this: Could not resolve host: acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org Closing connection 0 curl: (6) Could not resolve host: acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org

Please fix your systems DNS resolving capabilities and try again after DNS has been fixed.

Is this what you are talking about? I have these DNS settings set where my domain was bought from: [image]

No, that's the DNS settings for your domain. That's something else than the DNS resolving capabilities of a system. See for example stuff like curl - amazon ec2 instance unable to resolve host - Stack Overflow

So I'm guessing the area I need to be checking is the server of the VPS? I bought this from OpenLiteSpeed which is the VPS hoster which I used to launch an EC2 instance. Is this where I should fix the DNS resolving issues ?

Requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /directory (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7ff299f5b850>

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Osiris March 22, 2023, 5:13pm 13

Probably.

Max retries exceeded with url: /directory

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Requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /directory (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7ff299f5b850>

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