# Avahi daemon.
{ config, lib, utils, pkgs, ... }:
with lib;
let
cfg = config.services.avahi;
avahiDaemonConf = with cfg; pkgs.writeText "avahi-daemon.conf" ''
[server]
${# Users can set `networking.hostName' to the empty string, when getting
# a host name from DHCP. In that case, let Avahi take whatever the
# current host name is; setting `host-name' to the empty string in
# `avahi-daemon.conf' would be invalid.
if hostName != ""
then "host-name=${hostName}"
else ""}
browse-domains=${concatStringsSep ", " browseDomains}
use-ipv4=${if ipv4 then "yes" else "no"}
use-ipv6=${if ipv6 then "yes" else "no"}
${optionalString (interfaces!=null) "allow-interfaces=${concatStringsSep "," interfaces}"}
${optionalString (domainName!=null) "domain-name=${domainName}"}
[wide-area]
enable-wide-area=${if wideArea then "yes" else "no"}
[publish]
disable-publishing=${if publish.enable then "no" else "yes"}
disable-user-service-publishing=${if publish.userServices then "no" else "yes"}
publish-addresses=${if publish.userServices || publish.addresses then "yes" else "no"}
publish-hinfo=${if publish.hinfo then "yes" else "no"}
publish-workstation=${if publish.workstation then "yes" else "no"}
publish-domain=${if publish.domain then "yes" else "no"}
'';
in
{
###### interface
options = {
services.avahi = {
enable = mkOption {
default = false;
description = ''
Whether to run the Avahi daemon, which allows Avahi clients
to use Avahi's service discovery facilities and also allows
the local machine to advertise its presence and services
(through the mDNS responder implemented by `avahi-daemon').
'';
};
hostName = mkOption {
type = types.str;
description = ''
Host name advertised on the LAN. If not set, avahi will use the value
of config.networking.hostName.
'';
};
domainName = mkOption {
type = types.str;
default = "local";
description = ''
Domain name for all advertisements.
'';
};
browseDomains = mkOption {
default = [ ];
example = [ "0pointer.de" "zeroconf.org" ];
description = ''
List of non-local DNS domains to be browsed.
'';
};
ipv4 = mkOption {
default = true;
description = ''Whether to use IPv4'';
};
ipv6 = mkOption {
default = false;
description = ''Whether to use IPv6'';
};
interfaces = mkOption {
type = types.nullOr (types.listOf types.str);
default = null;
description = ''
List of network interfaces that should be used by the avahi-daemon.
Other interfaces will be ignored. If null all local interfaces
except loopback and point-to-point will be used.
'';
};
wideArea = mkOption {
default = true;
description = ''Whether to enable wide-area service discovery.'';
};
publish = {
enable = mkOption {
default = false;
description = ''Whether to allow publishing in general.'';
};
userServices = mkOption {
default = false;
description = ''Whether to publish user services. Will set addresses=true.'';
};
addresses = mkOption {
default = false;
description = ''Whether to register mDNS address records for all local IP addresses.'';
};
hinfo = mkOption {
default = false;
description = ''
Whether to register an mDNS HINFO record which contains information about the
local operating system and CPU.
'';
};
workstation = mkOption {
default = false;
description = ''Whether to register a service of type "_workstation._tcp" on the local LAN.'';
};
domain = mkOption {
default = false;
description = ''Whether to announce the locally used domain name for browsing by other hosts.'';
};
};
nssmdns = mkOption {
default = false;
description = ''
Whether to enable the mDNS NSS (Name Service Switch) plug-in.
Enabling it allows applications to resolve names in the `.local'
domain by transparently querying the Avahi daemon.
'';
};
};
};
###### implementation
config = mkIf cfg.enable {
services.avahi.hostName = mkDefault config.networking.hostName;
users.extraUsers = singleton
{ name = "avahi";
uid = config.ids.uids.avahi;
description = "`avahi-daemon' privilege separation user";
home = "/var/empty";
};
users.extraGroups = singleton
{ name = "avahi";
gid = config.ids.gids.avahi;
};
system.nssModules = optional cfg.nssmdns pkgs.nssmdns;
environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.avahi ];
systemd.services.avahi-daemon =
{ description = "Avahi daemon";
wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
# Receive restart event after resume
partOf = [ "post-resume.target" ];
path = [ pkgs.coreutils pkgs.avahi ];
preStart = "mkdir -p /var/run/avahi-daemon";
script =
''
# Make NSS modules visible so that `avahi_nss_support ()' can
# return a sensible value.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${config.system.nssModules.path}"
exec ${pkgs.avahi}/sbin/avahi-daemon --syslog -f "${avahiDaemonConf}"
'';
};
services.dbus.enable = true;
services.dbus.packages = [ pkgs.avahi ];
# Enabling Avahi without exposing it in the firewall doesn't make
# sense.
networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ 5353 ];
};
}