I am new. I want to get certbot and boulder working in a simple environment. They both run on the VM where I run the below command (http-01 challenge). I can’t tell if the challenge is getting routed by Boulder’s fake DNS server correctly. I have an endpoint at 127.0.0.1/.well-known/acme-challenge/{…

Thank you for the reply! You and _az were spot on. The problem was my FAKE_DNS pointing inside my docker container instead of the bridge to my host machine. After I changed FAKE_DNS and httpport in va.json, I got this working. Thanks again.

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Simple Local Boulder/Certbot HTTP-01 Challenge

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