Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by fanf2 1427 days ago
PTP and NTP have completely different scopes: PTP requires end-to-end layer 2 support and hateful choice of hardware, so it can only work within a single network; NTP on the other hand was always designed to work across the internet between different organizations, where the network doesn’t help with timekeeping and the organizations don’t work closely with each other.
2 comments

Whoops! You're right, instead of "successor" I should have just said "newer".
“hateful”? oops! i meant “careful”