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community.general.dnstxt lookup – query a domain(s)’s DNS txt fields

Note

This lookup plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 10.7.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this lookup plugin, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.dnstxt.

Synopsis

  • Uses a python library to return the DNS TXT record for a domain.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this lookup.

  • dns/dns.resolver (python library)

Terms

Parameter

Comments

Terms

list / elements=string / required

Domain or list of domains to query TXT records from.

Keyword parameters

This describes keyword parameters of the lookup. These are the values key1=value1, key2=value2 and so on in the following examples: lookup('community.general.dnstxt', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...) and query('community.general.dnstxt', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)

Parameter

Comments

real_empty

boolean

added in community.general 6.0.0

Return empty result without empty strings, and return empty list instead of NXDOMAIN.

The default for this option will likely change to true in the future.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)
  • true

Notes

Note

  • When keyword and positional parameters are used together, positional parameters must be listed before keyword parameters: lookup('community.general.dnstxt', term1, term2, key1=value1, key2=value2) and query('community.general.dnstxt', term1, term2, key1=value1, key2=value2)

Examples

- name: show txt entry
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{lookup('community.general.dnstxt', ['test.example.com'])}}"

- name: iterate over txt entries
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{item}}"
  with_community.general.dnstxt:
    - 'test.example.com'
    - 'other.example.com'
    - 'last.example.com'

- name: iterate of a comma delimited DNS TXT entry
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{item}}"
  with_community.general.dnstxt: "{{lookup('community.general.dnstxt', ['test.example.com']).split(',')}}"

Return Value

Key

Description

Return value

list / elements=string

Values returned by the DNS TXT record.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Jan-Piet Mens (@jpmens) <jpmens(at)gmail.com>

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/dnstxt_lookup.html