Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-06-06 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2023-06-01 at 20:56 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > Have you requested a PTR record? I use two different hosting companies > and both of them have accommodated me for whichever VMs I have spun up. I don't think it's possible. I don't have a virtual machine, it's a virtually hosted website

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-06-01 Thread Mike Wright
On 6/1/23 17:37, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2023-06-02 at 00:39 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: (a) The message says .. domain failed DCV (Domain Control Validation) … Even if the domain worked previously, it may be worthwhile to check the DNS entry. So far as I can tell, there's nothing wrong with

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-06-01 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2023-06-02 at 00:39 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: > (a) The message says .. domain failed DCV (Domain Control Validation) > … Even if the domain worked previously, it may be worthwhile to check > the DNS entry. So far as I can tell, there's nothing wrong with my DNS records. Of course reverse

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-06-01 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 01.06.2023 um 17:44 schrieb Tim via users : > > On Thu, 2023-06-01 at 11:15 +0930, Tim via users wrote: >> Trying to find decent and affordable hosting in my country is an >> exercise in frustration. Trying to find one that's actually in my >> country is difficult > > Realising, after

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-06-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 11:44 AM Tim via users wrote: > > On Thu, 2023-06-01 at 11:15 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > > Trying to find decent and affordable hosting in my country is an > > exercise in frustration. Trying to find one that's actually in my > > country is difficult > > Realising,

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-06-01 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2023-06-01 at 11:15 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Trying to find decent and affordable hosting in my country is an > exercise in frustration. Trying to find one that's actually in my > country is difficult Realising, after the fact, I hadn't mentioned I'm in Australia, during this

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-06-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2023-06-02 at 00:46 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had seen similar bogus error messages that > something might have been wrong, or maybe not, but nothing is wrong > afterwards.  Patrick, also using let's encrypt, said he hadn't.  So > I'm > assuming it's some

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-06-01 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> No, I sanitised it. I've found, in the past, that exposing real >> addresses gets it abused (extra spam and hacking attempts), since such >> people harvest mailing lists and newsgroups. Samuel Sieb: > Then that was a very misleading post... I assumed that it was some sort > of check

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-05-31 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/31/23 18:45, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 20:26 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: Did you really use example.com ? That would never work. No, I sanitised it. I've found, in the past, that exposing real addresses gets it abused (extra spam and hacking attempts),

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-05-31 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 9:45 PM Tim via users wrote: > > On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 20:26 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: > > [...] > > Otherwise it would be helpful, to post the SSL related part of your > > configuration file. > > Much as I'd like to, since it's a virtual host on a cpanel managed > system,

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-05-31 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/31/23 18:45, Tim via users wrote: Trying to find decent and affordable hosting in my country is an exercise in frustration. Trying to find one that's actually in my country is difficult (for Google to return my site to people as some kind of local service it needs to be at a local IP).

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-05-31 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/31/23 18:57, Mike Wright wrote: On 5/31/23 18:45, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 20:26 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: Did you really use example.com ? That would Trying to find decent and affordable hosting in my country is an exercise in frustration.  Trying

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-05-31 Thread Mike Wright
On 5/31/23 18:45, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 20:26 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: Did you really use example.com ? That would Trying to find decent and affordable hosting in my country is an exercise in frustration. Trying to find one that's actually in my

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-05-31 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 20:26 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: > Did you really use example.com ? That would > never work. No, I sanitised it. I've found, in the past, that exposing real addresses gets it abused (extra spam and hacking attempts), since such people harvest mailing lists

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-05-31 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 31.05.2023 um 05:01 schrieb Tim via users : > > Hi, > > After discussing let's encrypt on here the other week, I was wondering > if you get the same nonsense warnings as my hosting service provider > was emailing me over and over: > > begin paste > > ⛔ example.com (checked on

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-05-31 Thread Barry Scott
> On 31 May 2023, at 15:15, Tim via users wrote: > > On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 11:51 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> I'm self-hosting so I haven't seen anything like that (only commenting >> since I started the LetsEncrypt thread). > > Thanks. I was pretty sure it's down to something odd

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-05-31 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 11:51 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I'm self-hosting so I haven't seen anything like that (only commenting > since I started the LetsEncrypt thread). Thanks. I was pretty sure it's down to something odd they're doing (like many other odd things they get wrong). And

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-05-31 Thread Ted Roche
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:01 PM Tim via users wrote: > > Hi, > > After discussing let's encrypt on here the other week, I was wondering > if you get the same nonsense warnings as my hosting service provider > was emailing me over and over: > > begin paste > > ⛔ example.com (checked on

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

2023-05-31 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 12:31 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > After discussing let's encrypt on here the other week, I was > wondering > if you get the same nonsense warnings as my hosting service provider > was emailing me over and over: > > begin paste > > ⛔ example.com (checked on May

OT question about let's encrypt

2023-05-30 Thread Tim via users
Hi, After discussing let's encrypt on here the other week, I was wondering if you get the same nonsense warnings as my hosting service provider was emailing me over and over: begin paste ⛔ example.com (checked on May 30, 2023 at 12:25:12 PM UTC) There is no recorded error on the