Too many failed authorizations - rate limit

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Hi

I’ve hit the rate limit for failed authorizations as I was impatiently trying to set up a cert while DNS was updating.

I have a couple of questions:

  1. Is the 1 hour rate limit timeout reset on the hour or 1 hour after the restriction was put in place?
  2. Does retrying to issue the certificate reset the rate limit and cause me to wait even longer or not?

Thanks

Will

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The rate limits are a “sliding window”. So if you’d manage to spread out all the failed authorizations in 30 minutes, you’d be able to get a new authorization again after 30 minutes when the first failed one “expires”.

The answer to number 2 depends on whether the authorization will be succesful or not. If not succesful, it would count as a failed authorization and could cause you to need to wait even longer, depending on how much failed authorizations in the sliding window have expired already.

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Great, thanks for your help :slight_smile: