Under the hood, yes. You set a TXT record with the challenge token and the certs are issued when LE&#x27;s servers are able to verify it (a few minutes at most for it to propagate, generally).<p>However, people already made hooks that take care of that for you for some providers, for example, the CloudFlare one I experimented with:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kappataumu&#x2F;letsencrypt-cloudflare-hook" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kappataumu&#x2F;letsencrypt-cloudflare-hook</a>