diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/nylon/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/nylon/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3d1563f9520d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/nylon/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, libevent} :
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "nylon-1.21";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://monkey.org/~marius/nylon/nylon-1.21.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "34c132b005c025c1a5079aae9210855c80f50dc51dde719298e1113ad73408a4";
+  };
+
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-libevent=${libevent}" ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ libevent ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://monkey.org/~marius/nylon;
+    description = "Proxy server, supporting SOCKS 4 and 5, as well as a mirror mode.";
+    license = "free";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index af3891bc29f2..2b27eef01675 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1003,6 +1003,10 @@ let
     inherit fetchurl stdenv avahi;
   };
 
+  nylon = import ../tools/networking/nylon {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv libevent;
+  };
+
   openssh = import ../tools/networking/openssh {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv zlib openssl pam perl;
     pamSupport = getPkgConfig "openssh" "pam" true;