diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b313dd520..155ca96ce 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ The following emojis are used to highlight certain changes:
 
 ### Changed
 
+- fix(`provider`): don't reprovide if `reprovideInterval` is set to 0 [#871](https://github.com/ipfs/boxo/pull/871) 
+
 ### Removed
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/provider/reprovider.go b/provider/reprovider.go
index 44a2fea04..736b1df8b 100644
--- a/provider/reprovider.go
+++ b/provider/reprovider.go
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ type reprovider struct {
 	closewg sync.WaitGroup
 	mu      sync.Mutex
 
+	// reprovideInterval is the time between 2 reprovides. A value of 0 means
+	// that no automatic reprovide will be performed.
 	reprovideInterval        time.Duration
 	initalReprovideDelay     time.Duration
 	initialReprovideDelaySet bool
@@ -533,6 +535,9 @@ func (s *reprovider) getLastReprovideTime() (time.Time, error) {
 }
 
 func (s *reprovider) shouldReprovide() bool {
+	if s.reprovideInterval == 0 {
+		return false
+	}
 	t, err := s.getLastReprovideTime()
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Debugf("getting last reprovide time failed: %s", err)