I want to stop Simple Network Time Protocol
There are circumstances in which you might want to stop Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP). Use this topic to find out how to do this in different situations.
You might want to stop SNTP for a variety of reasons. For example, you might want to stop SNTP if any of the following conditions arises:
- You want to start a time adjustment and the SNTP has a time adjustment in progress.
- SNTP is not making proper time adjustments.
Recovery steps
The method that you use to stop SNTP depends on whether you want to stop SNTP from starting when TCP/IP is restarted, or you want to temporarily stop SNTP for the current TCP/IP session. You might want to complete both recovery methods if you want to stop SNTP immediately and do not want it to start when TCP/IP restarts.
- Method 1: Stopping the current SNTP session
These instructions stop the Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) client and server for the current TCP/IP session. However, SNTP starts again when TCP/IP restarts.- Method 2: Stopping SNTP
You can stop the Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) client and server from starting when TCP/IP restarts.- Additional recovery steps
You might need to complete some additional recovery steps to stop Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP).
Parent topic:
Troubleshooting time managementRelated concepts
Time maintenance application programming tips