Problem with NTPD

[Carmel NY]

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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Carmel