VALIDATING_OWNERSHIP stuck 24h+ — Railway not publishing ACME TXT on authorize.railwaydns.net
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HOBBYOP

a month ago

Hi Railway team,

Custom domain stuck in VALIDATING_OWNERSHIP for ~24h.

ACME TXT challenge is never published on Railway's authorize.railwaydns.net target.

Project: care

Project ID: fdaca019-61fe-48c0-a0e7-dea468db8a55

Service: care (070dd042-2e37-4536-9494-7eda021bec61)

Environment: production (6497d8f8-932f-4d0a-b369-8529b0b100e8)

Domains affected:

  1. care.lnctec.com.br (id: f05af03a-526d-4d05-a0c0-4cfc66cc12a4)
    • CNAME care → xce08g5z.up.railway.app — PROPAGATED
  2. *.care.lnctec.com.br (id: 5b672a47-0d97-4cf7-8476-c236e17d8948)
    • CNAME *.care → mr6sgu4i.up.railway.app — PROPAGATED
    • CNAME _acme-challenge.care → mr6sgu4i.authorize.railwaydns.net — PROPAGATED

Symptoms:

  • Both domains stuck in VALIDATING_OWNERSHIP indefinitely

  • dig TXT mr6sgu4i.authorize.railwaydns.net → returns empty

    (Railway is not publishing the ACME challenge token on its side)

  • HTTPS requests to https://care.lnctec.com.br return 404 "train not arrived"

Already tried:

  • Deleted and recreated both custom domains (twice)
  • Verified DNS propagation globally via dig from multiple resolvers
  • Confirmed Cloudflare proxy is DISABLED (DNS only / grey cloud) on all 3 CNAMEs
  • Waited 24h+ between attempts

This looks like an issue on Railway's ACME provisioning side since the

authorize.railwaydns.net TXT record is never populated.

Could someone from the team trigger a manual re-validation or check why

the ACME challenge isn't being published for these domain IDs?

Thanks!

Solved$10 Bounty

Pinned Solution

You need to add a TXT record to _railway-verify.care.lnctec.com.br. You can find the content for the TXT record under verificationToken under status.

1 Replies

Status changed to Open Railway about 1 month ago


You need to add a TXT record to _railway-verify.care.lnctec.com.br. You can find the content for the TXT record under verificationToken under status.


Status changed to Solved brody about 1 month ago


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