[my own pool/cgminer] Help! All work is discarded, nothing accepted or rejected

Hi everyone,

I'm new to crypto and I've just set up my own mining pool and installed + configured the daemon. Now when I'm trying to mine on my mining pool using cgminer 4.9.0, I keep getting the "Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart" message:

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cgminer version 4.9.0 - Started: [2022-02-16 14:03:54]
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(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s
A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:0.0/m
Connected to 141.95.105.118 diff 512 with stratum as user tc1qvrfu892afqskldtnl99n96c2ps7mj7ynutgtf5
Block: 9abcd6ae... Diff:3.35M Started: [14:03:54] Best share: 0
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[U]SB management [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
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[2022-02-16 14:03:51] Started cgminer 4.9.0
[2022-02-16 14:03:53] No devices detected!
[2022-02-16 14:03:53] Waiting for USB hotplug devices or press q to quit
[2022-02-16 14:03:53] Probing for an alive pool
[2022-02-16 14:03:54] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 512
[2022-02-16 14:03:54] Network diff set to 3.35M
[2022-02-16 14:04:05] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2022-02-16 14:04:26] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2022-02-16 14:04:47] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2022-02-16 14:05:08] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2022-02-16 14:05:29] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2022-02-16 14:05:50] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2022-02-16 14:06:12] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart

When I stop mining, I get the runtime statistics, which look like this:

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Summary of runtime statistics:

[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Started at [2022-02-16 14:03:54]
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Pool: stratum+tcp://141.95.105.118:5973
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Runtime: 0 hrs : 5 mins : 27 secs
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Average hashrate: 0.0 Mhash/s
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Solved blocks: 0
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Best share difficulty: 0
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Share submissions: 0
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Accepted shares: 0
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Rejected shares: 0
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Accepted difficulty shares: 0
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Rejected difficulty shares: 0
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Hardware errors: 0
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Utility (accepted shares / min): 0.00/min
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Work Utility (diff1 shares solved / min): 0.00/min

[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Stale submissions discarded due to new blocks: 0
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Unable to get work from server occasions: 0
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Work items generated locally: 212
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Submitting work remotely delay occasions: 0
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] New blocks detected on network: 1

[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Summary of per device statistics:

[2022-02-16 14:09:22]
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted
[2022-02-16 14:09:22] Pool 0 stratum+tcp://141.95.105.118:5973 not responding!

I tried googling around but it I didn't seem to find anything helpful. Most answers I found are about reducing the number of rejected/discarded shares but don't address the cases where no shares are accepted at all, which is the problem I'm facing. Is this a problem with the mining pool or the miner? How do I fix this?

Thanks a ton in advance!

Sincerely,
newlymintedcryptolover