avahi-dnsconfd.action8

Usage

Overview

avahi-dnsconfd.action is the action script that is called whenever a new unicast DNS server is found or removed by avahi-dnsconfd. The default script as shipped with avahi patches /etc/resolv.conf to reflect the changed unicast DNS server configuration.

Parameters

argv[1] Contains the character "+" if the DNS server is new, "-" when it shall be removed from the DNS server list.

argv[2] The IP address of the DNS server.

argv[3] Numerical network interface number this DNS server was found on.

argv[4] Numerical protocol number this DNS server was found on. (usually 2 for IPv4 and 10 for IPv6)

Environment

AVAHI_INTERFACE Contains the textual interface name the corresponds with argv[3]. (e.g. "eth0")

AVAHI_INTERFACE_DNS_SERVERS Contains a list of all DNS servers that avahi-dnsconfd found on the interface $AVAHI_INTERFACE, separated by spaces.

AVAHI_DNS_SERVERS Contains a list of all DNS server that avahi-dnsconfd found on all interfaces, separated by spaces.

Comments

This man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth.