// Contains the NTP time drift detection via the SNTP protocol: // https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4330 package discover import ( "fmt" "net" "sort" "strings" "time" log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus" ) const ( ntpPool = "pool.ntp.org" // ntpPool is the NTP server to query for the current time ntpChecks = 3 // Number of measurements to do against the NTP server ) // durationSlice attaches the methods of sort.Interface to []time.Duration, // sorting in increasing order. type durationSlice []time.Duration func (s durationSlice) Len() int { return len(s) } func (s durationSlice) Less(i, j int) bool { return s[i] < s[j] } func (s durationSlice) Swap(i, j int) { s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i] } // checkClockDrift queries an NTP server for clock drifts and warns the user if // one large enough is detected. func checkClockDrift() { drift, err := sntpDrift(ntpChecks) if err != nil { return } if drift < -driftThreshold || drift > driftThreshold { warning := fmt.Sprintf("System clock seems off by %v, which can prevent network connectivity", drift) howtofix := fmt.Sprintf("Please enable network time synchronisation in system settings") separator := strings.Repeat("-", len(warning)) log.Warn(separator) log.Warn(warning) log.Warn(howtofix) log.Warn(separator) } else { log.Debug(fmt.Sprintf("Sanity NTP check reported %v drift, all ok", drift)) } } // sntpDrift does a naive time resolution against an NTP server and returns the // measured drift. This method uses the simple version of NTP. It's not precise // but should be fine for these purposes. // // Note, it executes two extra measurements compared to the number of requested // ones to be able to discard the two extremes as outliers. func sntpDrift(measurements int) (time.Duration, error) { // Resolve the address of the NTP server addr, err := net.ResolveUDPAddr("udp", ntpPool+":123") if err != nil { return 0, err } // Construct the time request (empty package with only 2 fields set): // Bits 3-5: Protocol version, 3 // Bits 6-8: Mode of operation, client, 3 request := make([]byte, 48) request[0] = 3<<3 | 3 // Execute each of the measurements drifts := []time.Duration{} for i := 0; i < measurements+2; i++ { // Dial the NTP server and send the time retrieval request conn, err := net.DialUDP("udp", nil, addr) if err != nil { return 0, err } defer conn.Close() sent := time.Now() if _, err = conn.Write(request); err != nil { return 0, err } // Retrieve the reply and calculate the elapsed time conn.SetDeadline(time.Now().Add(5 * time.Second)) reply := make([]byte, 48) if _, err = conn.Read(reply); err != nil { return 0, err } elapsed := time.Since(sent) // Reconstruct the time from the reply data sec := uint64(reply[43]) | uint64(reply[42])<<8 | uint64(reply[41])<<16 | uint64(reply[40])<<24 frac := uint64(reply[47]) | uint64(reply[46])<<8 | uint64(reply[45])<<16 | uint64(reply[44])<<24 nanosec := sec*1e9 + (frac*1e9)>>32 t := time.Date(1900, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC).Add(time.Duration(nanosec)).Local() // Calculate the drift based on an assumed answer time of RRT/2 drifts = append(drifts, sent.Sub(t)+elapsed/2) } // Calculate average drif (drop two extremities to avoid outliers) sort.Sort(durationSlice(drifts)) drift := time.Duration(0) for i := 1; i < len(drifts)-1; i++ { drift += drifts[i] } return drift / time.Duration(measurements), nil }