bug#32845: guix.info: Missing manual

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Tobias,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>>> “certbot” can be used with manual DNS validation, which
>>> requires us to deploy a DNS TXT record.  This can be automated with
>>> certbot hooks (scripts that have access to the token that should be
>>> published via environment variables) or through JSON mode, which
>>> returns
>>> an object with the token that can be processed through other means.
>>
>> I didn’t know about all this!  Looks like our Certbot service
>> doesn’t
>> support it though?
>
> Not out of the box, and last time I checked vanilla certbot didn't
> provide an nsupdate (RFC2136) hook alongside all the DNSaaS API
> rubbish.
>
> But it's certainly possible, and wonderfully stable once set up. t.gr
> runs entirely on GuixSD + Knot + DNS-validated LE certs.

Neat.  Would you like to help come up with a Knot & Certbot config for
guix.gnu.org?  :-)

The peculiarity is this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ getent hosts guix.gnu.org
141.80.181.40   guix.gnu.org
185.233.100.56  guix.gnu.org
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Ludo’.