Unable to validate domainname

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My domain is: nieuwmail.nl

I ran this command: renew

It produced this output: Unable to validate

My web server is (include version): Synology DSM 7.1.1-42962 Update 7

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Vimexx

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know): don't know

I'm using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): Yes, from the NAS.

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): Don't know what that is.

For years I was able to automatically update the certificate, but now it fails. Also when I turned off my "firewall" and "Automatically blocking".

I did run the online tool https://letsdebug.net and it shows:
All OK!
OK
No issues were found with nieuwmail.nl. If you are having problems with creating an SSL certificate, please visit the Let's Encrypt Community forums and post a question there.

Please help!

Does it provide a more detailled log? Because without any details and a successful Let's Debug it's very hard to figure out what the issue is.

That said, I do see there's something not entirely functioning with one of the nameservers of your domain, ns4.dns.nl: its IPv6 address 2620:10a:80ac::200 seems to be malfunctioning for some parts of the internet.

E.g., I cannot reach its DNS server, nor can Dig web interface - online dns lookup tool. But if you look at https://dnsviz.net/d/nieuwmail.nl/Z27w3g/responses/, they don't have an issue, nor does UnboundTest at https://unboundtest.com/m/A/nieuwmail.nl/CYY4KWOP (although the latter doesn't seem to have queried 2620:10a:80ac::200 specifically.)

Not sure if the above has anything to do with the failure, but that's the only thing I could find.

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Most likely this is just supplemental information

Here are community forums for Synology that may be of assistance as well:

  1. https://community.synology.com/enu
  2. https://www.synoforum.com/
  3. https://synocommunity.com/

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Hello everyone thanks,
I have no idea what happened, I didn't find anything I could change.
However, after a few days it suddenly works to validate.
Thanks, Renee

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