I am trying to get the correct text to enter the DNS challenge in _acme-challenge.wachtell.net. I ran Certbot. However, even though I entered "--debug-challenges" it did not show the expected text to enter the DNS challenge. My domain is: wachtell.net I ran this command: certbot certonly --manual…

[image] wachtell: I may have misunderstood it, but though that it give me an output like this: It will only show those instructions the very first time you run the hook. After that, not any longer. You might be able the fetch the required CNAME value from the file /etc/letsencrypt/acmedns.js…

You seem to be using acme-dns, which usually requires a CNAME pointing to the acme-dns instance. Did you do that step? I assume you read the acme-dns documentation, right? Otherwise you wouldn't be using acme-dns-auth.py as a manual auth hook I'd think.

Using this online tool https://dnsspy.io/ search for DNS records on these results DNS Spy report for wachtell.net to find the DNS records (towards the bottom of the page). Or using this online tool https://www.hardenize.com/ here are the DNS Records Hardenize Report: wachtell.net And for those who…

[image] wachtell: _acme-challenge.wachtell.net And this is what I see with nslookup $ nslookup > server ns01.one.com. Default server: ns01.one.com. Address: 195.206.121.10#53 > set q=txt > _acme-challenge.wachtell.net Server: ns01.one.com. Address: 195.206.121.10#53 _acme-cha…

[image] Osiris: acme-dns-auth.py Maybe I did not explain the problem well enough. I want to enter the CNAME for _acme-challenge.wachtell.net in my DNS. I followed this guide: [image] How To Acquire a Let's Encrypt Certificate Using DNS Validation with... DNS validation allows for…

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Hi Bruce, Thank you for your investigation and clearly I did not explain the problem well enough. I want to be able to get a certificate but I have not been able to write the correct text into the _acme-challenge.wachtell.net text = "nothing" field. Can you help?

Thank you. I am in the process of moving to cloudflaire which is on your list.

Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for.

[image] wachtell: moving to cloudflaire which is on your list. Just giving credit where credit is due, the list is from @_az ; I merely pointed to their list. :slight_smile:

Trying to get the dns text to enter the dns challenge

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Bruce5051 January 10, 2023, 9:35pm 6

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