Avahi Aliases

This extension comprises several components. These include:

• A daemon to manage Avahi aliases.
• An extension to integrate with Aegir.
• Install Puppet module.

Avahi Aliases integrates with Aegir to allow automatic creation of such aliases as sites are provisioned.

Install

Avahi aliases service

# apt-get install python-avahi pip
# pip install git+git://github.com/PraxisLabs/avahi-aliases.git

Aegir integration

# git clone git://github.com/PraxisLabs/avahi-aliases.git \
  /var/aegir/.drush/provision_avahi
# cp /var/aegir/.drush/provision_avahi/files/aegir-avahi.sudoers \
  /etc/sudoers.d/aegir-avahi
# chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.d/aegir-avahi
# ln -s /var/aegir/config/avahi-aliases /etc/avahi/aliases.d/aegir

Puppet module

# git clone git://github.com/PraxisLabs/avahi-aliases.git \
  <puppet_dir>/modules/avahi

Then simply include the avahi class:

include avahi

Uninstall

sudo pip uninstall avahi-aliases

Usage

Daemon Control

# service avahi-aliases start
# service avahi-aliases restart
# service avahi-aliases stop

Creating Aliases

# echo something.local >> /etc/avahi/aliases.d/default
# service avahi-aliases restart

Notes:

• Aliases must end in .local
• One alias per line
• Blank lines and lines prefixed with # are ignored
• You must manually restart the daemon after modifying alias files

Aegir Integration

Aegir integration is automatic, though you will need to clear the Drush commandfile cache.

Todo

1. implement sudo avahi-alias add/remove aliasname
2. implement sudo avahi-alias list

License

Original copyright 2013 Zenobius Jiricek see: https://github.com/airtonix/avahi-aliases

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

Additional code is copyright 2014 Praxis Labs Coop, and published under the GNU General Public License 3.0 or later http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.