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Cloudflare Developers•3y ago•
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a0rnaud

Phantom DNS TXT record conflict with certbot

Hi everyone!

I want to configure a web server working with SSL and use certbot. A DNS TXT record is needed to setup certbot.

When I do a DNS lookup of my domain (prodesk.freeboxos.fr) I see that there’s already an existing TXT value (MBVDYOa1bMCVSAgKBiiw-8NOnygaNSL5ncdnPKM2iLI) that is not in my Cloudflare DNS manager.
I need to delete it to finish my certbot setup, what can I do? If needed, i can link the script of my certbot setup showing an error or give more details.
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