Letsencrypt always fails with too many requests error

I am getting an error when trying to start the letsencrypt container saying that “There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new order :: too many certificates already issued for exact set of domains: …”

But if I go to crt.sh these are the only entries:

2036380033 2019-10-25 2019-10-25 2020-01-23 C=US, O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3
2034256581 2019-10-25 2019-10-25 2020-01-23 C=US, O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3
2036856801 2019-10-25 2019-10-25 2020-01-23 C=US, O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3
2036376235 2019-10-25 2019-10-25 2020-01-23 C=US, O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3
2034220732 2019-10-25 2019-10-25 2020-01-23 C=US, O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3
1981595826 2019-10-08 2019-10-08 2020-01-06 C=US, O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3
1976216771 2019-10-08 2019-10-08 2020-01-06 C=US, O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3
1981589369 2019-10-08 2019-10-08 2020-01-06 C=US, O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3
1975139812 2019-10-08 2019-10-08 2020-01-06 C=US, O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3
1981577375 2019-10-08 2019-10-08 2020-01-06 C=US, O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3
1974444612 2019-10-08 2019-10-08 2020-01-06 C=US, O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3
3 1981568545 2019-10-08 2019-10-08 2020-01-06
1974434204 2019-10-08 2019-10-08 2020-01-06 C=US, O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3
1981377572 2019-10-08 2019-10-08 2020-01-06 C=US, O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3
1974279464 2019-10-08 2019-10-08 2020-01-06 C=US, O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3

There are none for today, so I don’t know what rate violation I could have hit. I specifically didn’t use the container for quite some time (half a month) and was using the standard nginx container instead. Now taht I have tried to go over, it is still doing this.

The last bit from the internal /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
2019-10-26 15:27:25,498:ERROR:certbot.log:An unexpected error occurred:
2019-10-26 15:27:25,499:ERROR:certbot.log:There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new order :: too many certificates already issued for exact set of domains: mydomain.duckdns.org: see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/

So I don’t know what the problem is?
It worked at first at the beginning of the month but in playing with my configs for all the other containers I think I hit rate limits. That’s why I switched over using standard nginx to get my config for nginx correct and use that in the meantime. Config to follow, note the duckdns container runs fine and has updated yesterday so the duckdns side is fine.

Config for the container (I obviously have a .env file for the variables which are not the problem as that’s always worked):
letsencrypt:
image: linuxserver/letsencrypt
container_name: letsencrypt
cap_add:

  • NET_ADMIN
    environment:
  • PUID=$UserID
  • PGID=$GroupID
  • TZ=Europe/London
  • URL=sub.duckdns.org
  • SUBDOMAINS=
  • VALIDATION=duckdns
  • DUCKDNSTOKEN=mytoken
  • EMAIL=example@gmail.com #optional
  • DHLEVEL=4096 #optional (default: 2048)
  • ONLY_SUBDOMAINS=false #optional
  • EXTRA_DOMAINS=
  • STAGING=true #optional
    volumes:
  • $MountDir$MainVolume$AppsDir/letsencrypt:/config
    ports:
  • 443:443
  • 80:80 #optional
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
  • media

Note I have 2 extra domains that I had to take out as the forum is blocking my post for too many urls.