I know this is marked solved but its the first post that comes up. After two days of messing with HA, spinning up new VMs, I figured out the problem was due to ACME client and port redirection from the master. All I had to do was click the (i) and it was pretty obvious. Ensure if you have changed the web admin port you specify the entire URI under the System->High Availability->Settings> Synchronize Config to ip. IE https://192.168.0.2:8443. They synchronize Peer IP remains just an IP. I hope this save someone time. The is the only thing left out of the official documentation.Remember HA is using web API to configure everything.