Ansible and name resolution

[Charles Brown]

Hello,

How do I perform name-to-IP lookups form within ansible YAML?  Or even better, a Jinja template?

Thanks.

[Serge van Ginderachter]

Using the 'pipe' lookup you can use the output of a command, e.g. " dig +short my.dns.name "

http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_lookups.html#more-lookups

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[Charles Brown]

Apologies for double post.  Didn't realize forum was moderated for first posters.

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[Jan-Piet Mens]

> Using the 'pipe' lookup you can use the output of a command, e.g. " dig
> +short my.dns.name "

Charles' question, and Serge's response prompted me to finally get
something done about this. Test at your own risk. [1] ;-)

-JP

[1] http://jpmens.net/2015/02/20/a-new-dns-lookup-plugin-for-ansible/

[Brian Coca]

nice!




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Brian Coca

[Jan-Piet Mens]

> nice!

Submitted as PR #10311 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/10311

IMO, dnstxt.py should be removed, and the docs updated to say

Users of the previously-available `dnstxt` lookup-plugin should
migrate to `dig` by changing

lookup('dnstxt', 'example.com')

to
lookup('dig', 'example.com/TXT')

I hope that helps.

-JP