Changing your MTU may help certbot / Let’s Encrypt

While attempting to create a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate using certbot for a number of domains, I ran into something that appeared to be a timeout issue in the certbot client and/or one of the Python libraries used by it.

I found this thread, which recommends changing the MTU to 1300, and it does work. So, maybe this will help you too 🙂

community.letsencrypt.org/t/cannot-get-new-certificate-readtimeout-error/94586

In other words:

ifconfig eth0 mtu 1300

may help you out.

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