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Letsencrypt DNS problem looking up A
I successfully installed an SSL certificate for one of my domains the other day using your tutorial. Today I tried to general an SSL certificate for a second domain, and I’m getting the error “DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up A for [the domain]”. Now the detail says to make sure the DNS A record contains the right IP address. I checked, it does.
Next it suggests to make sure no firewalls are preventing the server from communicating. How could that be a problem when I’ve done this before with no problem? I have not installed any firewalls or anything else for that matter since then.
Could this DNS problem have anything to do with the massive DDoS attack that’s occurring today? Suggestions appreciated.
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Anyone? I am still having no luck today, which implies it wasn’t the DDoS attack that was causing it. I don’t know what else to try.
Jesus Christ, DNS issues with digitalocean are a mess, do i have to delete and recreate a droplet to be able to add new website?
the records exists(both A and CNAME) but certbot wont recognize it and points to digitalocean that there are no A record with a particular subdomain