</option>
<option>
- <p><opt>domain-name=</opt> Set the domain name avahi-domain
+ <p><opt>domain-name=</opt> Set the default domain name avahi-daemon
tries to register its host name and services on the LAN in. If
- omited defaults to ".local".</p>
+ omitted defaults to ".local".</p>
+ </option>
+
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>browse-domains=</opt> Set a comma seperated 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 seperated domains or by adding them to the XDG config
+ file <file>~/.config/avahi/browse-domains</file> (seperated by
+ newlines).</p>
+
</option>
<option>
<option>
<p><opt>enable-dbus=</opt> Takes either "yes", "no" or
- "warn". If set to "yes" avahi-daemon connects to D-BUS,
+ "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 <opt>--enable-dbus</opt> in
+ if Avahi has been compiled with <opt>--enable-dbus</opt> 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.</p>
+ 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.) </p>
+ </option>
+
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>disallow-other-stacks=</opt> 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".</p>
+ </option>
+
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>allow-point-to-point=</opt> 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!</p>
</option>
</section>
+ <section name="Section [wide-area]">
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>enable-wide-area=</opt> 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".</p>
+ </option>
+
+ </section>
+
<section name="Section [publish]">
+
+ <option><p><opt>disable-publishing=</opt> 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"</p></option>
+
+ <option><p><opt>disable-user-service-publishing=</opt> 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"</p></option>
+
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>add-service-cookie=</opt> 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".</p>
+ </option>
+
<option>
<p><opt>publish-addresses=</opt> Takes a boolean value ("yes"
or "no"). If set to "yes" avahi-daemon will register mDNS
SIGHUP to have it reload this file. Defaults to "no".</p>
</option>
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>publish-aaaa-on-ipv4=</opt> 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 <opt>use-ipv4=true</opt>. Defaults to "yes".</p>
+ </option>
+
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>publish-a-on-ipv6=</opt> 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 <opt>use-ipv6=true</opt>. Defaults to "no".</p>
+ </option>
+
</section>
<section name="Section [reflector]">
</option>
<option>
- <p><opt>rlimit-nproc=</opt> Value for RLIMIT_NPROC (number of process of user). Since only a single avahi-daemon process is usually running you can set this safely to 1.</p>
+ <p><opt>rlimit-nproc=</opt> Value for RLIMIT_NPROC (number of process of user). avahi-daemon forks of a helper process on systems where <manref name="chroot" section="2"/> is available. Therefore this value should not be set below 2.</p>
</option>
</section>
<section name="Authors">
- <p>The avahi developers <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>; avahi is
+ <p>The Avahi Developers <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>; Avahi is
available from <url href="@PACKAGE_URL@"/></p>
</section>
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