Problem with NTPD

[Jon Radel]

> On Mar 26, 2019, at 8:47 AM, 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
> 

Start by troubleshooting the DNS resolver(s) mentioned in /etc/resolv.conf. Your DNS lookups are failing. 

> 
> I am trying to figure out if this is a localized problem.

Probably. 


Jon
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