avahi-dnsconfd.action(8)

avahi-dnsconfd.action8

Avahi-dnsconfd action script

Usage

/etc/avahi/avahi-dnsconfd.action

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.

Releases

Unchanged in 11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

  1. 4.0–Arch

Authors

The Avahi Developers <avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; Avahi is available from http://avahi.org/

From avahi 1:0.9rc5-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.