Timeout problems using dns-01 challenge

[matt (Matt Holt)]

Ah, yeah, that could be why.

The reason we made new DNS provider plugins is because of trouble with environment variable configuration. More info:

About DNS providers in Caddy 2

I’ve gotten a lot of questions about DNS provider plugins for Caddy 2. These plugins are necessary to support the DNS Challenge which is needed to get wildcard certificates from Let’s Encrypt or to get certificates for servers that can’t be exposed to the Internet at all. I know this feature is in high demand – and it’s always been a priority – but there’s a lot of friction to overcome before we can get this working well in Caddy 2. I ported a few provider plugins over to v2 but I quickly disco…

So I made libdns (introduced here: Introducing libdns: A collaborative effort for unified DNS provider APIs) and there are instructions for implementing providers here: Writing new DNS provider modules for Caddy