networking.hostId

The 32-bit host ID of the machine, formatted as 8 hexadecimal characters.

You should try to make this ID unique among your machines. You can generate a random 32-bit ID using the following commands:

head -c 8 /etc/machine-id

(this derives it from the machine-id that systemd generates) or

head -c4 /dev/urandom | od -A none -t x4

The primary use case is to ensure when using ZFS that a pool isn't imported accidentally on a wrong machine.

Type

null or string

Default

null

Example

"4e98920d"

Declared

<nixpkgs/nixos/modules/tasks/network-interfaces.nix>