diff --git a/pkgs/configs/etc/protocols/builder.sh b/pkgs/configs/etc/protocols/builder.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..75988087ba5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/configs/etc/protocols/builder.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+source $stdenv/setup
+
+ensureDir $out
+cp $src $out/protocols
diff --git a/pkgs/configs/etc/protocols/default.nix b/pkgs/configs/etc/protocols/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fe7054dab60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/configs/etc/protocols/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "etc-protocols-1.3";
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://losser.labs.cs.uu.nl/~armijn/.nix/protocols.gz;
+    md5 = "3c7dcc6c6d30fadec21829574116171a";
+  };
+}