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Reputation: 912

Issue with Certbot: "no valid A records found" during certificate renewal

I'm encountering an issue with Certbot while trying to renew SSL certificates for my domain using the --nginx option. The error message I'm getting is as follows:

$ sudo certbot --nginx -d your_domain.com -d www.your_domain.com
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator nginx, Installer nginx
Obtaining a new certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for your_domain.com
Waiting for verification...
Cleaning up challenges
Failed authorization procedure. your_domain.com (http-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:dns :: no valid A records found for your_domain.com; no valid AAAA records found for your_domain.com

IMPORTANT NOTES:
 - The following errors were reported by the server:

   Domain: your_domain.com
   Type:   None
   Detail: no valid A records found for your_domain.com; no valid
   AAAA records found for your_domain.com
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I am not sure exactly what to look for to fix this error. I am using Lindo Akamai and the A/AAAA Record is showing the correct IP address also the website is working fine without as Http. I am using Nginx and Gunicorn for a Django Project.

My question how to fix the error everytime I run sudo certbot --nginx -d your_domain.com -d www.your_domain.com

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7264

Answers (1)

xahiru
xahiru

Reputation: 81

I had the same problem. Here, sudo certbot --nginx -d your_domain.com -d www.your_domain.com you are adding your_domain.com and www.your_domain.com (two entries, one with www. and one without www.)

The error is saying that there is no A record for your_domain.com (without www.) So just add new A record without www. It worked for me (Using google domain service) EDIT: If your DNS/hosting provider does not support entires without www. you can add an entry with just '@' (which usually means the root of the domain). It worked for me on justhost.com

Upvotes: 3

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