resolvconf service: init

This is a refactor of how resolvconf is managed on NixOS. We split it
into a separate service which is enabled internally depending on whether
we want /etc/resolv.conf to be managed by it. Various services now take
advantage of those configuration options.

We also now use systemd instead of activation scripts to update
resolv.conf.

NetworkManager now uses the right option for rc-manager DNS
automatically, so the configuration option shouldn't be exposed.

1 files changed, 149 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/modules/config/resolvconf.nix b/nixos/modules/config/resolvconf.nix
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/nixos/modules/config/resolvconf.nix
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+# /etc files related to networking, such as /etc/services.
+
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+
+with lib;
+
+let
+
+  cfg = config.networking.resolvconf;
+
+  resolvconfOptions = cfg.extraOptions
+    ++ optional cfg.dnsSingleRequest "single-request"
+    ++ optional cfg.dnsExtensionMechanism "edns0";
+
+  configText =
+    ''
+      # This is the default, but we must set it here to prevent
+      # a collision with an apparently unrelated environment
+      # variable with the same name exported by dhcpcd.
+      interface_order='lo lo[0-9]*'
+    '' + optionalString config.services.nscd.enable ''
+      # Invalidate the nscd cache whenever resolv.conf is
+      # regenerated.
+      libc_restart='${pkgs.systemd}/bin/systemctl try-restart --no-block nscd.service 2> /dev/null'
+    '' + optionalString (length resolvconfOptions > 0) ''
+      # Options as described in resolv.conf(5)
+      resolv_conf_options='${concatStringsSep " " resolvconfOptions}'
+    '' + optionalString cfg.useLocalResolver ''
+      # This hosts runs a full-blown DNS resolver.
+      name_servers='127.0.0.1'
+    '' + cfg.extraConfig;
+
+in
+
+{
+
+  options = {
+
+    networking.resolvconf = {
+
+      enable = mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        default = false;
+        internal = true;
+        description = ''
+          DNS configuration is managed by resolvconf.
+        '';
+      };
+
+      useHostResolvConf = mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        default = false;
+        description = ''
+          In containers, whether to use the
+          <filename>resolv.conf</filename> supplied by the host.
+        '';
+      };
+
+      dnsSingleRequest = lib.mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        default = false;
+        description = ''
+          Recent versions of glibc will issue both ipv4 (A) and ipv6 (AAAA)
+          address queries at the same time, from the same port. Sometimes upstream
+          routers will systemically drop the ipv4 queries. The symptom of this problem is
+          that 'getent hosts example.com' only returns ipv6 (or perhaps only ipv4) addresses. The
+          workaround for this is to specify the option 'single-request' in
+          /etc/resolv.conf. This option enables that.
+        '';
+      };
+
+      dnsExtensionMechanism = mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        default = true;
+        description = ''
+          Enable the <code>edns0</code> option in <filename>resolv.conf</filename>. With
+          that option set, <code>glibc</code> supports use of the extension mechanisms for
+          DNS (EDNS) specified in RFC 2671. The most popular user of that feature is DNSSEC,
+          which does not work without it.
+        '';
+      };
+
+      extraConfig = mkOption {
+        type = types.lines;
+        default = "";
+        example = "libc=NO";
+        description = ''
+          Extra configuration to append to <filename>resolvconf.conf</filename>.
+        '';
+      };
+
+      extraOptions = mkOption {
+        type = types.listOf types.str;
+        default = [];
+        example = [ "ndots:1" "rotate" ];
+        description = ''
+          Set the options in <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename>.
+        '';
+      };
+
+      useLocalResolver = mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        default = false;
+        description = ''
+          Use local DNS server for resolving.
+        '';
+      };
+
+    };
+
+  };
+
+  config = mkMerge [
+    {
+      networking.resolvconf.enable = !(config.environment.etc ? "resolv.conf");
+
+      environment.etc."resolvconf.conf".text =
+        if !cfg.enable then
+          # Force-stop any attempts to use resolvconf
+          ''
+            echo "resolvconf is disabled on this system but was used anyway:" >&2
+            echo "$0 $*" >&2
+            exit 1
+          ''
+        else configText;
+    }
+
+    (mkIf cfg.enable {
+      environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.openresolv ];
+
+      systemd.services.resolvconf = {
+        description = "resolvconf update";
+
+        before = [ "network-pre.target" ];
+        wants = [ "network-pre.target" ];
+        wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+        restartTriggers = [ config.environment.etc."resolvconf.conf".source ];
+
+        serviceConfig = {
+          Type = "oneshot";
+          ExecStart = "${pkgs.openresolv}/bin/resolvconf -u";
+          RemainAfterExit = true;
+        };
+      };
+
+    })
+  ];
+
+}