No A or AAAA record found for hostname autodiscover.xxxx.com

ConanMan

I am on cloudflare. Port 80 goes to mailcow

I want to run a certificate renewal manually so I did

# cd /opt/mailcow-dockerized/
# docker compose restart acme-mailcow

I am definitely resolving at the right ip (if u type it in directly)

but when I run the docker compose restart acme-mailcow in docker compose logs --tail=2000 -f acme-mailcow I see

mailcowdockerized-acme-mailcow-1  | Sat Jun 17 13:25:19 BST 2023 - Initializing, please wait...
mailcowdockerized-acme-mailcow-1  | Sat Jun 17 13:25:19 BST 2023 - Using existing domain rsa key /var/lib/acme/acme/key.pem
mailcowdockerized-acme-mailcow-1  | Sat Jun 17 13:25:19 BST 2023 - Using existing Lets Encrypt account key /var/lib/acme/acme/account.pem
mailcowdockerized-acme-mailcow-1  | Sat Jun 17 13:25:19 BST 2023 - Detecting IP addresses...
mailcowdockerized-acme-mailcow-1  | Sat Jun 17 13:25:41 BST 2023 - OK: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000
mailcowdockerized-acme-mailcow-1  | Sat Jun 17 13:25:43 BST 2023 - No A or AAAA record found for hostname autodiscover.xxxx.com
mailcowdockerized-acme-mailcow-1  | Sat Jun 17 13:25:43 BST 2023 - No A or AAAA record found for hostname autoconfig.xxxx.com
mailcowdockerized-acme-mailcow-1  | Sat Jun 17 13:25:44 BST 2023 - Found A record for mail.xxxx.com: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
mailcowdockerized-acme-mailcow-1  | Sat Jun 17 13:25:44 BST 2023 - Confirmed A record with IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, but HTTP validation failed
mailcowdockerized-acme-mailcow-1  | Sat Jun 17 13:25:44 BST 2023 - Cannot validate any hostnames, skipping Let's Encrypt for 1 hour.
mailcowdockerized-acme-mailcow-1  | Sat Jun 17 13:25:44 BST 2023 - Use SKIP_LETS_ENCRYPT=y in mailcow.conf to skip it permanently.

How do I get rid of this error

mailcowdockerized-acme-mailcow-1  | Sat Jun 17 13:25:43 BST 2023 - No A or AAAA record found for hostname autodiscover.xxxx.com
mailcowdockerized-acme-mailcow-1  | Sat Jun 17 13:25:43 BST 2023 - No A or AAAA record found for hostname autoconfig.xxxx.com

when I try to add a AAAA record in cloudflare it only allows me to do ipv6?

this is my cloudflare

accolon

“No A or AAAA record found”

You don’t have an A record for autodiscover.yourdomain.com and autoconfig.yourdomain.com either.

Follow the instructions:
https://docs.mailcow.email/prerequisite/prerequisite-dns/

ConanMan

yes I added those records and they didn’t affect the error

ok the solution

open port 443 and port 80 (both) on the outward facing IP and point them both to this server
purge cloudflare caches
nano mailcow.conf then do SKIP_IP_CHECK=y SKIP_HTTP_VERIFICATION=y

cycle the containers

# docker-compose down
# service docker restart
# docker-compose up -d
# docker compose restart acme-mailcow

(this will fail, with a

ValueError: Error getting directory: mailcowdockerized-acme-mailcow-1  | Url: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory

)
but that’s ok - then

nano mailcow.conf then go back to SKIP_IP_CHECK=y SKIP_HTTP_VERIFICATION=y
# docker compose restart acme-mailcow

then you get

Verifying autoconfig.xxxxx.com...
autoconfig.xxxxx.com verified!
Verifying autodiscover.xxxxx.com...
autodiscover.xxxxx.com verified!
Verifying mail.xxxxx.com...
mail.pfsp.co.uk verified!
Signing certificate...
Certificate signed!
Sat Jun 17 14:42:07 BST 2023 - Deploying certificate /var/lib/acme/mail.xxxxx.com/cert.pem...
Sat Jun 17 14:42:07 BST 2023 - Verified hashes.
Sat Jun 17 14:42:07 BST 2023 - Certificate successfully obtained
Sat Jun 17 14:42:07 BST 2023 - Found orphaned certificate: mail.xxxxxx.com - archiving it at /var/lib/acme/backups/mail.xxxxx.com/
Sat Jun 17 14:42:07 BST 2023 - Reloading or restarting services... (1)
Restarting xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
command completed successfully
Restarting xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx..
command completed successfully
Restarting xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
command completed successfully
Sat Jun 17 14:42:16 BST 2023 - Waiting for containers to settle...
Sat Jun 17 14:42:29 BST 2023 - Certificates successfully requested and renewed where required, sleeping one day