Problem with NTPD

[B J]

On 3/26/19, Carmel NY <carmel_ny at outlook.com> wrote:
> I awoke this morning to find that neither NTPD or portsnap were working
> correctly. Error message from NTPD:
>
> Mar 26 07:43:34 scorpio ntpd[66279]: error resolving pool
> 0.freebsd.pool.ntp.org
> hostname nor servname provided, or not known (8)
>
> And this one from portsnap:
>
> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
>
> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap.FreeBSD.org... failed.
>
> No mirrors remaining, giving up
>
>
> I am trying to figure out if this is a localized problem.

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I often have that happen with one of my laptops.  Usually, I reboot
the machine and it manages to connect with the ISP.

BMJ