I followed this tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-20-04 and when I write this commandsudo certbot --nginx -d example.com -d www.example.com with my own domain, I get this error Challenge failed for domain goldenpay.clickChallenge failed for domain www.goldenpay.clickhttp-01 challenge for goldenpay.clickhttp-01 challenge for www.goldenpay.clickCleaning up challengesSome challenges have failed. IMPORTANT NOTES: The following errors were reported by the server: Domain: goldenpay.clickType: dnsDetail: DNS problem: SERVFAIL looking up A for goldenpay.click -the domain’s nameservers may be malfunctioning; DNS problem:SERVFAIL looking up AAAA for goldenpay.click - the domain’snameservers may be malfunctioning Domain: www.goldenpay.clickType: dnsDetail: DNS problem: SERVFAIL looking up CAA for goldenpay.click -the domain’s nameservers may be malfunctioning

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Hi, I'm having issues setting up ssl certificate on digital ocean.

Posted on February 15, 2022
DNS Ubuntu 20.04
Asked by ehisdanomuokhonlen

I followed this tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-20-04

and when I write this command sudo certbot --nginx -d example.com -d www.example.com with my own domain, I get this error

Challenge failed for domain goldenpay.click Challenge failed for domain www.goldenpay.click http-01 challenge for goldenpay.click http-01 challenge for www.goldenpay.click Cleaning up challenges Some challenges have failed.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

The following errors were reported by the server:

Domain: goldenpay.click Type: dns Detail: DNS problem: SERVFAIL looking up A for goldenpay.click - the domain’s nameservers may be malfunctioning; DNS problem: SERVFAIL looking up AAAA for goldenpay.click - the domain’s nameservers may be malfunctioning

Domain: www.goldenpay.click Type: dns Detail: DNS problem: SERVFAIL looking up CAA for goldenpay.click - the domain’s nameservers may be malfunctioning

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Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• July 15, 2022

Hi there,

Indeed, in order for Let’s Encrypt to be able to validate your domain name, you need to first change your A record to point to the server’s IP address.

You can follow the steps on how to do that here:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/dns/how-to/manage-records/

Best,

Bobby