[ntp:questions] Re: "The NTP network is a forest of hosts(...)"

Maarten Wiltink maarten at kittensandcats.net
Wed Jun 28 11:34:14 UTC 2006


"Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl at RZ.Uni-Regensburg.DE> wrote in message
news:86lkrhy4l6.fsf at pc8032.rz.uni-regensburg.de...

> a "forest" being a "set of trees", I have a question with the statement
> cited: I doubt that NTP sync graph is tree-like (each node having eactly
> one parent, and the graph having no cycles). Especially with "peer"
> synchronization with peers being at the same startum.

It might mean that the _sync_ graph is a tree. At every moment in time,
only one association can be the selected one.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink





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