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NAME
avahi-daemon.conf - avahi-daemon configuration file
SYNOPSIS
/etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf
DESCRIPTION
avahi-daemon.conf is the configuration file for avahi-daemon.
SECTION [SERVER]
host-name= Set the host name avahi-daemon tries to register on the LAN. If omited defaults to the system
host name as set with the sethostname() system call.
host-name-from-machine-id= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes" avahi-daemon will use
the machine-id as name on the LAN.
domain-name= Set the default domain name avahi-daemon tries to register its host name and services on the
LAN in. If omitted defaults to ".local".
browse-domains= Set a comma separated list of browsing domains (in addition to the default one and those
announced inside the default browsing domain). Please note that the user may specify additional browsing
domains on the client side, either by setting $AVAHI_BROWSE_DOMAINS to a list of colon separated domains
or by adding them to the XDG config file ~/.config/avahi/browse-domains (separated by newlines).
use-ipv4= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "no" avahi-daemon will not use IPv4 sockets.
Default is "yes".
use-ipv6= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "no" avahi-daemon will not use IPv6 sockets.
Default is "yes".
allow-interfaces= Set a comma separated list of allowed network interfaces that should be used by the
avahi-daemon. Traffic on other interfaces will be ignored. If set to an empty list all local interfaces
except loopback and point-to-point will be used.
deny-interfaces= Set a comma separated list of network interfaces that should be ignored by avahi-daemon.
Other not specified interfaces will be used, unless allow-interfaces= is set. This option takes
precedence over allow-interfaces=.
check-response-ttl= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes", an additional security check
is activated: incoming IP packets will be ignored unless the IP TTL is 255. Earlier mDNS specifications
required this check. Since this feature may be incompatible with newer implementations of mDNS it
defaults to "no". On the other hand it provides extra security.
use-iff-running= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes" avahi-daemon monitors the
IFF_RUNNING flag bit which is used by some (modern) network drivers to tell user space if a network cable
is plugged in (in case of copper ethernet), or the network card is associated with some kind of network
(in case of WLAN). If IFF_RUNNING is set avahi-daemon will automatically announce its services on that
network. Unfortunately far too many network drivers do not support this flag or support it in a broken
way. Therefore this option defaults to "no".
enable-dbus= Takes either "yes", "no" or "warn". If set to "yes" avahi-daemon connects to D-Bus, offering
an object oriented client API. It is only available if Avahi has been compiled with --enable-dbus in
which case it defaults to "yes". "warn" behaves like "yes", but the daemon starts up even when it fails
to connect to a D-Bus daemon. In addition, if the connection to the D-Bus daemon is terminated we try to
reconnect. (Unless we are in a chroot() environment where this definitely will fail.)
disallow-other-stacks= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes" no other process is allowed
to bind to UDP port 5353. This effectively impedes other mDNS stacks from running on the host. Use this
as a security measure to make sure that only Avahi is responsible for mDNS traffic. Please note that we
do not recommend running multiple mDNS stacks on the same host simultaneously. This hampers reliability
and is a waste of resources. However, to not annoy people this option defaults to "no".
allow-point-to-point= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes" avahi-daemon will make use
of interfaces with the POINTOPOINT flag set. This option defaults to "no" as it might make mDNS
unreliable due to usually large latencies with such links and opens a potential security hole by allowing
mDNS access from Internet connections. Use with care and YMMV!
cache-entries-max= Takes an unsigned integer specifying how many resource records are cached per
interface. Bigger values allow mDNS work correctly in large LANs but also increase memory consumption.
clients-max= Takes an unsigned integer. The maximum number of concurrent D-Bus clients allowed. If the
maximum number is reached further clients will be refused until at least one existing client disconnects.
objects-per-client-max= Takes an unsigned integer. The maximum number of objects (entry groups, browsers,
resolvers) that may be registered per D-Bus client at a time. If the maximum number is reached further
object creation will be refused until at least one object is freed.
entries-per-entry-group-max= Takes an unsigned integer. The maximum number of entries (resource records)
per entry group registered by a D-Bus client at a time. If the maximum number is reached further resource
records may not be added to an entry group.
ratelimit-interval-usec= Takes an unsigned integer. Sets the per-interface packet rate-limiting interval
parameter. Together with ratelimit-burst= this may be used to control the maximum number of packets Avahi
will generated in a specific period of time on an interface.
ratelimit-burst= Takes an unsigned integer. Sets the per-interface packet rate-limiting burst parameter.
Together with ratelimit-interval-usec= this may be used to control the maximum number of packets Avahi
will generated in a specific period of time on an interface.
SECTION [WIDE-AREA]
enable-wide-area= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). Enable wide-area DNS-SD, aka DNS-SD over unicast
DNS. If this is enabled only domains ending in .local will be resolved on mDNS, all other domains are
resolved via unicast DNS. If you want to maintain multiple different multicast DNS domains even with this
option enabled we encourage you to use subdomains of .local, such as "kitchen.local". This option
defaults to "yes".
SECTION [PUBLISH]
disable-publishing= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes", no record will be published
by Avahi, not even address records for the local host. Avahi will be started in a querying-only mode. Use
this is a security measure. This option defaults to "no"
disable-user-service-publishing= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes", Avahi will still
publish address records and suchlike but will not allow user applications to publish services. Use this
is a security measure. This option defaults to "no"
add-service-cookie= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes" an implicit TXT entry will be
added to all locally registered services, containing a cookie value which is chosen randomly on daemon
startup. This can be used to detect if two services on two different interfaces/protocols are actually
identical. Defaults to "no".
publish-addresses= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes" avahi-daemon will register mDNS
address records for all local IP addresses. Unless you want to use avahi-daemon exclusively for browsing
it's recommended to enable this. If you plan to register local services you need to enable this option.
Defaults to "yes".
publish-hinfo= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes" avahi-daemon will register an mDNS
HINFO record on all interfaces which contains information about the local operating system and CPU, which
might be useful for administrative purposes. This is recommended by the mDNS specification but not
required. For the sake of privacy you might choose to disable this feature. Defaults to "no".
publish-workstation= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes" avahi-daemon will register a
service of type "_workstation._tcp" on the local LAN. This might be useful for administrative purposes
(i.e. browse for all PCs on the LAN), but is not required or recommended by any specification. Newer
MacOS X releases register a service of this type. Defaults to "no".
publish-domain= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes" avahi-daemon will announce the
locally used domain name (see above) for browsing by other hosts. Defaults to "yes".
publish-dns-servers= Takes a comma separated list of IP addresses for unicast DNS servers. You can use
this to announce unicast DNS servers via mDNS. When used in conjunction with avahi-dnsconfd on the client
side this allows DHCP-like configuration of unicast DNS servers.
publish-resolv-conf-dns-servers= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes" avahi-daemon will
publish the unicast DNS servers specified in /etc/resolv.conf in addition to those specified with
publish-dns-servers. Send avahi-daemon a SIGHUP to have it reload this file. Defaults to "no".
publish-aaaa-on-ipv4= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes" avahi-daemon will publish an
IPv6 AAAA record via IPv4, i.e. the local IPv6 addresses can be resolved using an IPv4 transport. Only
useful when IPv4 is enabled with use-ipv4=true. Defaults to "yes".
publish-a-on-ipv6= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes" avahi-daemon will publish an
IPv4 A record via IPv6, i.e. the local IPv4 addresses can be resolved using an IPv6 transport. Only
useful when IPv6 is enabled with use-ipv6=true. Defaults to "no".
SECTION [REFLECTOR]
enable-reflector= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes" avahi-daemon will reflect
incoming mDNS requests to all local network interfaces, effectively allowing clients to browse mDNS/DNS-
SD services on all networks connected to the gateway. The gateway is somewhat intelligent and should work
with all kinds of mDNS traffic, though some functionality is lost (specifically the unicast reply bit,
which is used rarely anyway). Make sure to not run multiple reflectors between the same networks, this
might cause them to play Ping Pong with mDNS packets. Defaults to "no".
reflect-ipv= Takes a boolean value ("yes" or "no"). If set to "yes" and enable-reflector is enabled,
avahi-daemon will forward mDNS traffic between IPv4 and IPv6, which is usually not recommended. Defaults
to "no".
reflect-filters= Set a comma separated list of allowed service names to be reflected. Each service that
is seen must match an entry in this list to be reflected to other networks. This list can match the type
of service or the name of the machine providing the service. Defaults to allowing all services.
SECTION [RLIMITS]
This section is used to define system resource limits for the daemon. See setrlimit(2) for more
information. If any of the options is not specified in the configuration file, avahi-daemon does not
change it from the system defaults.
rlimit-as= Value in bytes for RLIMIT_AS (maximum size of the process's virtual memory). Sensible values
are heavily system dependent.
rlimit-core= Value in bytes for RLIMIT_CORE (maximum core file size). Unless you want to debug avahi-
daemon, it is safe to set this to 0.
rlimit-data= Value in bytes for RLIMIT_DATA (maximum size of the process's data segment). Sensible values
are heavily system dependent.
rlimit-fsize= Value for RLIMIT_FSIZE (maximum size of files the process may create). Since avahi-daemon
shouldn't write any files to disk, it is safe to set this to 0.
rlimit-nofile= Value for RLIMIT_NOFILE (open file descriptors). avahi-daemon shouldn't need more than 15
to 20 open file descriptors concurrently.
rlimit-stack= Value in bytes for RLIMIT_STACK (maximum size of the process stack). Sensible values are
heavily system dependent.
rlimit-nproc= Value for RLIMIT_NPROC (max number of processes a user can launch). avahi-daemon forks of a
helper process on systems where chroot(2) is available therefore this value should not be set below 2.
Note that while the process limit only applies to this process, the total count of processes to reach
that limit includes all processes on the system with the same UID, including any containers without UID
remapping (such as lxd containers with security.privileged=true). The default configuration of 3 was
removed to prevent problems in this scenario.
AUTHORS
The Avahi Developers <avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; Avahi is available from
http://avahi.org/
SEE ALSO
avahi-daemon(8), avahi-dnsconfd(8)
COMMENTS
This man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth.
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