certbot-dns-freenom's Introduction

freenom DNS Authenticator plugin for Certbot

A certbot dns plugin to obtain certificates using Freenom DNS.

Credentials File

credentials.ini

dns_freenom_username = username
dns_freenom_password = password

chmod 600 /path/to/credentials.ini

Obtaining certificate

This are examples to obtain wildcard certificate. Change domain, email and path/to/credential.ini file to your owns.

Using pip

pip install certbot certbot-dns-freenom

certbot certonly -a dns-freenom \
  --dns-freenom-credentials /path/to/credentials.ini \
  --dns-freenom-propagation-seconds 300 \
  -d "*.example.com" \
  -m [email protected] \
  --agree-tos -n

Using docker

docker run \
    -v /path/to/credentials.ini:/credentials.ini \
    -v /etc/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt \
    -v /var/lib/letsencrypt:/var/lib/letsencrypt \
    -v /var/log/letsencrypt:/var/log/letsencrypt \
    shm013/certbot-dns-freenom:latest \
    certonly \
    -a dns-freenom \
    --dns-freenom-credentials /credentials.ini \
    --dns-freenom-propagation-seconds 300 \
    -d '*.example.com' \
    -m '[email protected]' \
    --agree-tos -n

Possible problems

It take up to 30 minutes to update dns record. You can rise parameter certbot-dns-freenom:dns-freenom-propagation-seconds if cause any trouble such as:

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

   Domain: youdomain.com
   Type:   dns
   Detail: DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up TXT for
   _acme-challenge.youdomain.com - check that a DNS record exists for this
   domain

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