Re:Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates
by schoen on Thursday February 27, 2020 @02:24PM
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> it turned out I am blacklisted from requesting new certs for 7 days, per their rate limits
The rate limit for failed issuance is one hour, not 7 days. The 7 day rate limit applies when you successfully issue 5 identical certificates; then you have to wait 7 days more to issue a new identical certificate.
It's unlikely that you would be subject to the 7 day duplicate certificate limit due to a Certbot dependency problem, because the dependency problem would have to allow Certbot to obtain the certificates correctly but fail to save them properly.
(Source: I'm a Certbot developer.)
I should also add that I'm really sorry that you experienced an installation problem on CentOS. Dependency and packaging problems continue to be a challenge for Certbot and our colleagues are still trying to find a more universal solution to them (probably involving snaps).
The rate limit for failed issuance is one hour, not 7 days. The 7 day rate limit applies when you successfully issue 5 identical certificates; then you have to wait 7 days more to issue a new identical certificate.
https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/
It's unlikely that you would be subject to the 7 day duplicate certificate limit due to a Certbot dependency problem, because the dependency problem would have to allow Certbot to obtain the certificates correctly but fail to save them properly.
(Source: I'm a Certbot developer.)
I should also add that I'm really sorry that you experienced an installation problem on CentOS. Dependency and packaging problems continue to be a challenge for Certbot and our colleagues are still trying to find a more universal solution to them (probably involving snaps).