connection failed for acme-v01-api-letsencrypt org: SSL connect attempt failed

 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) “post” request to “https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-authz” because of an error: SSL connection failed for acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org: SSL connect attempt failed

This can occur when an older build of letsencrypt is running on a new build of cPanel. Try performing the following:

yum clean all
yum update cpanel-letsencrypt

 

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