DNS verification failed for apex domain – site is served by Netlify, but SSL won’t renew

Hi Netlify Support Team,

I am having trouble with SSL certificate provisioning for my site cafephil.at. The dashboard keeps showing the error:

cafephil.at doesn’t appear to be served by Netlify

We can’t renew your Let’s Encrypt certificate automatically until the issue is resolved.

However, my DNS configuration is exactly as required:

  • Both A records for the apex domain (@) are set to:

  • 75.2.60.5

  • 99.83.190.102

  • No AAAA or CNAME records for the apex domain.

  • DNSSEC is disabled.

  • The site is reachable via both http://cafephil.at and http://www.cafephil.at.

I also ran the recommended curl test and got the following result for both domains:

curl -s -v http://cafephil.at 2>&1 | grep -i server
< Server: Netlify

curl -s -v http://www.cafephil.at 2>&1 | grep -i server
< Server: Netlify

So the site is definitely being served by Netlify, but the dashboard still shows “Awaiting External DNS” and will not provision a new certificate.

Could you please check and reset the DNS/certificate status for my domain?

Screenshots of my DNS settings and the Netlify dashboard are attached.

Thank you very much for your help!

Best regards,

Jonathan



Your domain seems to be pointing to Vercel.