is a self signed certificate always invalid the first time

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Samstag, den 19.08.2017, 21:39 -0400 schrieb KT Walrus:
> 
> I use DNS verification for LE certs. Much better since generating
> certs only depends on access to DNS and not your HTTP servers. Cert
> generation is automatic (on a cron job that runs every night looking
> for certs that are within 30 days of expiration). Once set up, it is
> pretty much automatic. I do use Docker to deploy all services for my
> website which also makes things pretty easy to manage.
> 
> Kevin

Hi Kevin,

what software do you use for DNS based verification? I read with the
official certbot from LE it's not possible to do this fully automated.
Currently I use the http based method, but would like to switch to DNS
based.

Greetings
Felix