2005年NTP专家经验：网络时间协议实践详解

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《专家网络时间协议：2005年NTP实践体验》是由Peter Rybaczyk撰写的一本技术著作，版权归作者所有。该书详细探讨了NTP（Network Time Protocol）在实际网络环境中的应用与经验，为读者提供了一个深入理解NTP在保持网络时钟同步、提升系统稳定性和确保数据一致性方面的关键见解。 NTP是网络时间协议，是互联网标准RFC 5905定义的一种协议，用于在网络设备之间同步系统时钟，确保所有参与者的时间精度。在2005年的背景下，随着网络基础设施的发展和对时间一致性需求的增长，NTP的作用日益凸显。作者Peter Rybaczyk以其丰富的实践经验，剖析了NTP的设计原则、工作原理，以及如何配置和优化NTP服务器与客户端，以应对各种网络环境挑战。书中涵盖了以下几个关键知识点： 1. **NTP基础**：介绍了NTP协议的基本架构，包括主从模式、广播和多播机制，以及不同类型的NTP实体，如时间服务器、客户机和对等体。 2. **时间同步流程**：详细描述了NTP同步过程，包括初始化、同步、追时和保持同步四个阶段，以及期间的握手和心跳机制。 3. **部署策略**：针对企业网络、数据中心和分布式系统，提供了实际场景下的NTP部署建议，包括选择正确的服务器池、处理地理位置差异和网络延迟等问题。 4. **故障检测与恢复**：讨论了NTP的健壮性，如何通过NTP的错误检测和恢复机制来确保系统的可靠性，包括处理不可用服务器、NTP安全性和防止DoS攻击。 5. **最佳实践与案例研究**：分享了作者在实际项目中的经验和教训，以及与其他网络管理协议（如PPTP、SNTP）的比较，帮助读者避免常见问题和提高效率。 6. **安全性考虑**：强调了NTP在网络安全中的重要性，包括使用加密选项（如NTPsec）来保护时间信息，抵御篡改和中间人攻击。本书不仅适合网络管理员和IT专业人员作为参考，也为对网络时间同步有深入研究兴趣的读者提供了宝贵的实战指南。通过阅读这本书，读者能够提升对NTP的理解，优化网络时间同步策略，并在处理时间相关的网络问题时更加得心应手。

Multiple Views of Time

Sam smiled and pondered. His point of vantage offered him an unprecedented view

and perspective. He wished they could catch even a glimpse of it. But his desire was tem-

pered. How would they use it if they did? After all, so many of them misuse just about

everything, let alone the power that this kind of knowledge and understanding could

afford them.

And what of the apathy among them? So many no longer question the origin of the

constant drumbeat of the circumstantial conveyer belts that submerge them continually

in a multitude of exotic and mundane events. Instead, they simply accept that steady

barrage either with mild content or, in many cases, with a sense of resignation. Sam was

coming to grips with the realization that his audience might be limited because of so

many of them being engaged in what appears to be a never-ending struggle with forces

seemingly beyond their control. And for those interested, he would also have to be judi-

cious in sharing his insights with them.

They, the humans, are occupying a wobbling, spherically shaped rock that follows

what appears to be an elliptical orbit around Sam’s native residence. Suffering from a col-

lective amnesia, they’ve become bound by what they call time and confined to a minutest

fraction of what they call space.

The legion of definitions of time that they’ve come up with only aids them in per-

petuating this self-imposed ignorance of the time-transcendent laws that govern Sam’s

native habitat. They continually talk, write, and speculate about time. They keep track of

it and attempt to “maximize” it. Their scientists have developed constructs called calen-

dars and a stunning granularity of units to measure time’s “passage.” They identify some

of it as past and some as future that’s somehow divided by the elusive present.

As though it were a container of sorts, “their time” is filled with a host of routine and

unexpected activities. They ascribe numerous attributes to those activities but have not

yet grasped them as being nothing more than simple processes in energy conversion.

They routinely try to find more time and use it as a resource to fuel the achievement of

surprisingly meager goals. They repeatedly lament about being short of time as though

capricious gods whimsically throttled its flow to them.

Yet, few among the humans give thought to transcending time. Somehow, they’ve

become accustomed to its effects, even without understanding it. Their residence pro-

vides them with aids in perpetuating time’s illusions. The inclination of Earth’s axis to

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the plane in its orbital path creates an effect on the surface of their rock that they refer to as

seasons. The change of seasons is a classic measure of time’s “passage” for so many of them.

Couple the effect of the seasons with their globe’s rotation around its axis. The varying pat-

terns of exposure of Earth’s surface to the light rays from the sun create another means of

time’s illusory grip on their minds: the effects of day and night. With no awareness of ever

having resided in the center of the sun where seasons, day, and night seem as most humor-

ous concepts, they actually seem to enjoy time’s numerous effects and ploys. And ploys

they are indeed! Their obsession with aging, for one, being the biggest of them all!

Sam continued to muse. His earthly performances were drawing to a close. His smile

broadened as he almost succumbed to sentimentality. He assumed many forms during

his sojourn. Was it worth it? Or, better yet, using the familiar earthly vernacular, was it

worth his time? His smile broadened even more.

He built. He fought. He prayed. He preached. The roles of a warrior, philosopher,

gardener, priest, poet, housemaid, and scientist barely scratch the surface of his collec-

tive experience and confinement in the relativity of earthly time. All through those

experiences Sam kept his wits about him. He murmured: yes, it was worth it! Through

his efforts he has thinned the veil of time for some of them. He knew he wasn’t quite fin-

ished, though. At least one more earthly adventure awaited him! And it seemed to be

a timely one!

Sam was most conscious of his role as actor. He played all his parts with great zeal

and dignity. After all, he volunteered for this job, and he loved it. Some of his roles were

seductive, as though attempting to develop an identity of their own and distract him

from his intended performance. He knew well how to guard against their pull, lest he for-

get his origins and become like the rest of them—lost in the earthly time. Occasionally,

when his scripts appeared dim, he improvised. But hardly anyone around him ever

noticed it.

In the course of acting out his many roles, Sam constantly marveled at the lack of

a universal communication among the humans. The existence of myriad languages

seemed a most primitive condition to him. They expend so much energy translating

between the languages, but they don’t seem to be able to agree on how to adopt a com-

mon one. Free will! he sighed. There will come a time when they will grasp its true

meaning, he mused, while reminding himself to stop thinking in their limited terms.

Despite the many roles Sam played—all subject to the earthly time—his awareness

had nothing to do with it. He acknowledged time as a meager construct to help him get

through the numerous acts. A mere crutch! He had no sense of the beginning or ending of

his roles. After all, all of his roles were all there, all at once. A most dynamic mosaic indeed!

They differed from one another by the varying proportions of the different energy states

from which they were composed and the dominant energy state they were last left in.

Sam’s awareness pulsated with spectacular rhythm. Each of his earthly roles was

an energy forcefield: all of the many “past” roles and the still remaining “future” one. At

will, he could make any of the roles flash multidimensional imageries before him. They

represented acts that he had already performed, a myriad of acts that could have been

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performed simply as a function of just the slightest variation of the conditions during

the plays, and those acts that were still intended to play themselves out in the “future”

role. Each role had numerous permutations regardless of its “past,” “future,” or “state of

energy” condition.

Sam could make each role present itself exclusively in the form of sound, taking on

qualities that would stun even the greatest of earthly musical connoisseurs. He could also

view his roles via combinations of a seemingly endless spectrum of colors. He was able to

access each role with ease and to any degree of detail he desired. It was a matter of acceler-

ation, deceleration, and the application of the simplest of all energy conversion techniques,

which despite its simplicity was still unknown to the humans. The technique that Sam

used in a most natural and almost nonchalant manner has eluded the most sophisticated

endeavors of their scientists, despite their continued quest for it.

Sam studied his many roles and assimilated their already played-out actualities and

the seemingly limitless but unrealized possibilities. He found it relaxing and refreshing

to switch between the different types of energy states in viewing the roles. Yet, he knew it

was all prep, a rehearsal. No amount of study of any of his earthly roles could ultimately

prepare him for the experience before him once the curtain was drawn upon his final act.

He almost quivered with a degree of anticipation. Still, the prep was in order for his

upcoming play, as he knew he was not quite finished.

As part of the preparation and rehearsal, Sam was able to access the collective essence

of roles other than his own. He could view the numerous acts of many others like himself,

as well as any particular condition or aspect of human knowledge, history, or experience

that was of interest to him. He mused again. They’ve come a long way from what they call

the prehistoric ages to the modern times. But what’s blocking them from the realization of

who they really are? He sighed. Time and space, what else?

Sam was able to function in many dimensions and move through them at will. One of

his favorites, the “memory” dimension that he frequently visited, had a replica of all the

content ever produced and recorded in any type of written, printed, graphic, audio, or

video form by the earthlings. It was a replica native to that dimension, having naught to

do with the bulkiness of the printed matter, the audio and video media, or even the clum-

siness of their digitized counterparts. Not unlike Sam’s many roles, the collective earthly

content was a multistate energy forcefield. He could scan through it effortlessly, organize

it, and sort it at will according to the most exotic criteria known by earthly standards.

The digitization of printed matter, voice, and images and the use of software they refer

to as search engines were but crude approximations of his capabilities. In the “memory”

dimension he scanned the combined achievements of earthly science, literature, philoso-

phy, history, and more. He was most interested in the continuing evolution of their concept

of time, their efforts at universal forms of communication through their modern computer

networks, and their search for a unifying force behind what they call the four fundamental

forces of nature: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. In

attempting to share any new insights with them, he knew he was facing an uphill struggle

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given their collective attachments to their scientific method and theories, their philoso-

phies, their cultures, and their historical traditions.

Time: The Scientific Perspective

The science of physics that concerns itself with the study of matter/energy interactions

is governed by numerous laws and theories, most of which pertain to objects that are in

motion. The concept of motion, in turn, is irrevocably linked to that of time. Sam knew

he was entering a slippery slope. Objects, motion, time. To most of the earthlings these

concepts appear as very concrete, constant, and obvious. But their scientists have been

learning otherwise. The body of knowledge that constitutes physics has been punctuated

in the course of its expansion by numerous conflicts, contradictions, and inconsistencies,

in an effort to bring forth a clearer and more refined understanding of these fundamental

concepts.

Numerous laws and theories that have been advanced over the centuries of earthly

time flashed before Sam’s awareness. They were all there, both silly and profound. Some

have been long discarded by a vast majority of the human race, others widely applied,

and still others hardly accepted or even understood. The dizzying display was almost

more than Sam cared to place his attention on: the laws of motion of classical mechanics,

electromagnetism, the special and general theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, Isaac

Newton’s universal theory of gravitation, the string theory, and more. A multitude of the

finest of human minds have been involved in postulating and experimenting with these

laws, these theories, and the underlying mathematics behind them.

They all deal with the concepts of motion and time, from the micro to the macro

levels. From quarks to quasars, Sam murmured. And as much as they explain numerous

phenomena and provide a framework within which the humans can function, each new

theory seems to create its own set of seemingly irreconcilable conflicts with some of its

predecessor siblings, which only leads to the further pursuit of still newer theories and

explanations. As a whole, they only scratch the surface of the simple, elegant, and pro-

found universal laws that Sam lived by.

With the predominance of their scientists adhering to the use of the scientific method

in advancing their knowledge of universal laws, it will take a major paradigm shift for

them to break out of this ever-increasing but ever more confining scientific box. Will they

recognize how to break out of it? Would they accept it if someone told them how to do it?

Or, do they have to discover the escape hatch for themselves through seemingly endless

trial and error?

Sam mused. The inherent reliance of the scientific method on the process of experi-

mentation to prove a hypothesis is ultimately a trap. It confines all of their experiments

that are aimed at a better understanding of time, space, and the structure of matter to a

limited number of dimensions and energy states—those in which their experimental

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instruments can function. A pity indeed! They’ve become conditioned to trust inanimate

objects more than themselves. They truly do not know who they really are!

In all cases, the instruments they use in conducting their experiments seem to inter-

fere with the results of those experiments, no matter how minute and, in most instances,

irrelevant the interference might be in the context of “everyday life.” But that interference

makes itself known and becomes much more pronounced at the subatomic level, which

is where they seem to be continually baffled by new discoveries and phenomena. They’ve

even come up with a principle to reflect the limitation in their ability to determine with

absolute precision the state of the particles that constitute their very forms: the “uncer-

tainty principle.”

The knowledge they continue to gain via the scientific method creates a box, one

that perhaps grows bigger as a function of their time but never transcends its funda-

mental nature. Is anyone among them willing to abandon some of the elements of the

scientific method in pursuit of a still more refined understanding of time? What are the

consequences in the face of such audacity given the seemingly profound accomplish-

ments the scientific method has afforded them so far?

Classical Mechanics

Most of the earthly activities that are perceptible to the human senses fit neatly into the

laws of classical mechanics where the motion of objects is very, very slow compared to

the speed of light and objects are much, much bigger than the subatomic particles—or

even the largest atoms—from which they are composed. Inasmuch as the earthly scien-

tists seem to have adopted the speed of light as a universal constant (approximately

299,792.5 km/sec or 186,282 miles/sec using the commonly accepted ratio of 1.609344

km/mile or 0.621371 miles/km), the absolutely exact speed of light is still unknown and

subject to experimental error.

The most common approximations for the speed of light are stated either as 300,000

km/sec or as 186,000 miles/sec. Close enough, Sam murmured, especially when compar-

ing the typical speeds of the common earthly objects to the speed of light. After all, the

speed of 186,000 miles/sec is roughly ten million times that of a car traveling at 67 miles/hr.

But, in the final analysis, Sam muttered, they really don’t know much of anything with

absolute precision. Everything they do and measure is an approximation, subject to

uncertainty and error, even though each of their acts could be perceived with an immutable

reality and precision even from the slowest pulsating dimensions in which he resides.

Despite the fact that classical mechanics breaks down and becomes completely

inadequate at speeds approaching the speed of light, Newton’s laws of motion still serve

the earthlings quite well. In the course of the application of those laws, most of them

make an inherent assumption that all time-related measurements happen in a coordi-

nate system or a frame of reference that is at rest. The size of their wobbly rock, no matter

how minute from Sam’s perspective, seems to offer them this comfort of immutability

and absoluteness. And it is, indeed, a fairly safe bet for many of their routine activities,

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