If anyone is having issues with these errors, theres been compatibility changes to LetsEncrypt. Unless both your polling and answering server are on compattible versions, you can fix your error by ensuring that your openssl version is < than the following
OpenSSL <= 1.0.2
Windows < XP SP3
macOS < 10.12.1
iOS < 10 (iPhone 5 is the lowest model that can get to iOS 10)
Android < 7.1.1 (but >= 2.3.6 will work if served ISRG Root X1 cross-sign)
Mozilla Firefox < 50
Ubuntu < 16.04
Debian < 8
Java 8 < 8u141
Java 7 < 7u151
NSS < 3.26
Amazon FireOS (Silk Browser)
these are the affected clients that will still trust the exiting certificate chain
also, as reference,